November/December 2007
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Whose stock is rising-and whose isn't.
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John Kotter
His popular biz book featuring penguins in peril, Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions, is the Who Moved My Cheese? for the hedge-fund generation, with the added cachet of a pro-environmental message.
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Richard Nelson Frye
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the 87-year-old American Iranologist can be buried in the city of Isfahan when he dies. Frye, who founded the first Iranian studies program in the U.S. at Harvard, wants to be buried next to his mentor, the archeologist Arthur Pope.
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Rep. Sander Levin
The Michigan Democrat is proposing legislation to increase the rate - currently a mere 15% - at which hedge fund managers are taxed on their share of clients' profits. The populist maneuver is going over well in Michigan, not so much on Wall Street.
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Benazir Bhutto
Optimism following the end of her eight-year-exile quickly dissipated when suicide bombes greeted her return to Pakistan by killing 140 people. The question now is not just whether she can help hold her country together, but whether she can stay alive.
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David Pilbeam
The interim dean of Harvard College has challenged the Undergraduate Council's ability to dole out "party grants," which he said were being used to purchase alcohol. While Pilbeam is probably right on the substance, his tough talk has alienated students, who now refer to him as "Dean Wormer".
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