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The 'Wall Street Journal' Coverage of Lehman Is Weirding Us Out All of a Sudden
Lurking outside the office, eavesdropping near fast-food carts. Really?
Posted 09/11/08 in Daily Intel : Ink-Stained Wretches
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Andrew Ross Sorkin Just So Totally Exhausted by These Rich Dudes Jerking Everyone Around
The ‘Times’ business columnist left us with a few final thoughts before going on vacay.
Posted 08/26/08 in Daily Intel : White Men With Money
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Where’s Rupert Murdoch’s Wedding Ring?
The 71-year-old mogul lost his wedding ring in Sun Valley! Can you help him?
Posted 07/11/08 in Daily Intel : Multiple Choice
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DealBook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin vs. DealBreaker’s John Carney
Plus a bonus round with Felix Salmon of 'Portfolio.' It's a finance-nerd rumble!
Posted 07/09/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Jonathan Franzen's Latest (Unsurprising) Target Is Michiko Kakutani
'Vanity Fair' fights back over the Miley Cyrus pictures, Stuyvesant Town has a square dance, and more, in our daily industry roundup.
Posted 04/29/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Andrew Ross Sorkin and Stephen Feinberg Overcome Pride and Prejudice
The Times DealBook columnist finds the reclusive financier most agreeable.
Posted 04/15/08 in Daily Intel : White Men With Money
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Wall Street’s Golden Idols All Have Feet of Clay
FINANCE • The struggle to find a successor at Merrill and Citi demonstrates another big flaw in the current culture of Wall Street: Do-or-die standards, and growing demands on public executives, have left firms with no succession plan and few capable of stepping in to take over. Both firms have been forced to turn outside for help: Laurence Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, has been approached about O'Neal's old job, while Robert Willumstad and John Thain are in the lead to take Prince's place. [WSJ] • Why did Chuck Prince and Stan O'Neal fail? They took Gordon Gecko's favorite maxim—"I create nothing, I own"—a little too seriously, and forgot the other part of banking is to sell, sell, sell. [NYT] • Andrew Ross Sorkin dons his Miss Manners cap to explain the rules of corporate courting—and why Stan O'Neal's worrywart parents, the Merrill Lynch board, were only looking for an excuse when they grounded him for asking Wachovia to "merge." [NYT]
Posted 11/05/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Rupert Murdoch Wins the Party
MEDIA • News Corp. surpassed Time Warner to become the largest media company on the planet, and Murdoch held off a shareholder revolt in order to keep his family tyranny in place. [Hollywood Reporter, USAT] • ESPN poached marquee columnist Rick Reilly from Sports Illustrated after 22 years with the mag. Dan Patrick, who SI just poached from ESPN, will take Reilly's place at the back of the book. [NYT, Deadspin] • Stephen Colbert took his campaign to the Tim Russert show: "This is not a dream, you are not going to wake up from this. I am far realer than Sam Brownback." [NYT]
Posted 10/22/07 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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