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People who oppose any attempted sell-off by Brandeis are hoping that Massachusetts attorney general Martha Coakley can put some obstacles in the school's path. Her office has already announced that it will examine the intent of the donors of any work that Brandeis attempts to sell, to determine whether they placed restrictions on what uses the school could make of it. Jonathan Lee, chairman of the Rose's board of overseers, has also begun discussions with Coakley's office to see if there are other ways it might intervene. Meanwhile Brandeis has to embark on the complicated process...
...fallacy, says one Wall Street veteran I talked to, is that anyone who occupies one of those golden chairs - global equities, say, or convertible bonds - is almost guaranteed to bring in business and get paid for it. "I could put a monkey in that chair and get a certain level of business," he said. With 46,000 financial jobs having been lost in New York City already, demand is falling, so the risk of losing talent to rivals is declining. The bigger question that should be asked of these big earners, says the Wall Street vet, is this: What...
Last week President Obama joined the chorus of outrage at the $18.2 billion in Wall Street bonus bucks, wondering just what these guys were thinking after a year in which the Federal Government had to put up $770 billion to save their custom-suit-wearing butts. The answer is that they were thinking about the same thing they always think about: more. Wall Streeters follow the Principle of More. I want more than I made last year; I want more than you made; I want more stock; I want more toys. And don't we all? It's just that...
...variety of the functional guy, but in a much more intense way. You are at a really vulnerable, pained spot in life and he steps in to help you put your life back together. So he's talking to your divorce lawyer, helping you figure out the settlement, reading the documents, making sure you get to the doctor, helping you figure out the kids. Your kids are acting out and he's there disciplining the kids or talking about what he might do. Helping you because you're injured...
...classes at the high school or participate in individual online courses, but these options are neither formalized nor widely publicized. “This has been bubbling up for a couple years,” committee member Patrica M. Nolan ’80 said. “We put the motion forward not to get an update on where we are but to move the district forward to address needs that are not currently met.” Nolan’s son, who is in middle school, currently takes geometry at the high school—an option...