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...What I like to do is just hit the road. There's no substitute for putting your eyeballs on the business." -On his management style. (New York Times, March...
...serious short-term risks of egg donation are much better understood: ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, ovarian torsion or ruptured ovarian cysts. In late 2008, a study of 587 egg donors who underwent a total of 973 cycles of ovarian stimulation at a single clinic in New York City found serious complications in 0.7% of the cycles and minor complications severe enough to prompt donors to seek medical attention in 8.5% of the cycles...
...Washington with the man he wanted to be his deputy, Ron Bloom. Both men had spent much of their careers in the universe of high finance, but they came from different planets. Thanks to the success of his dealmaking firm, Quadrangle, Rattner, 56, lives atop New York society in an apartment overlooking Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bloom, who turns 54 today, lived until recently in Pittsburgh and trained as an investment banker so he could help unions negotiate complicated deals, which he has done for the past 15 years as an assistant to the president...
...Rattner's aims are less clear. He started as a reporter at the New York Times in the 1970s and left to begin a successful career as a media-business dealmaker on Wall Street. His lifestyle is the envy of many who have watched his career, which also got its start at Lazard Frères - he has the fancy cars, the Fifth Avenue apartment and homes in Westchester and on Martha's Vineyard. A major Democratic donor, Rattner's brains and ambition have propelled him to the top, but he has made enemies along...
...east of Canary Wharf, a real estate megaventure conceived on industrial wasteland in Britain's go-go 1980s. By the time the first part of the project was completed in the early 1990s, Britain was in a deep economic slump, and the project's developer, the Montreal-based Olympia & York, went bust...