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Wall Street Crime and Punishment is a weekly series by Benzinga s Phil Hall that chronicles the bankers, brokers and financial ne’er-do-wells whose ambition and greed takes them in the wrong direction.
“I don t know quite how it happened that I m making $1 million a month,” said Cort Randell in a May 1968 interview with Time Magazine. “I just sit in the office and talk to people.”
At 32 years old, Randell was presented in the media as epitomizing all of the virtues and none of the vices of LBJ-era American youth. His company, National Student Marketing Corp., was considered to be one of the most innovative ventures of the day, successfully tapping into the high school and college market with a precision that the old-school corporations could never truly achieve.
Book excerpt: ‘Master Negotiator: The Role of James A. Baker, III at the End of the Cold War’ Diana Villiers Negroponte 1 hour ago Master Negotiator: The Role of James A. Baker, III at the End of the Cold War by Diana Villiers Negroponte. (Archway) A comprehensive examination of U.S. diplomacy at the end of the Cold War through the lens of Secretary of State James A. Baker III. With good intel, careful preparation and thoughtful analysis of likely consequences, he negotiated outcomes considered improbable by most. He enabled the unification of Germany, the eviction of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait, peacemaking in Central America, the launch of NAFTA negotiations, the commencement of direct Israeli and Palestinian peace talks, the conclusion of the nuclear START agreement and the safe guarding of nuclear weapons and material in the former Soviet Union. The closeness of his friendship with President George H.W. Bush and his determination to work with allies and foes bro
Book excerpt: 'Master Negotiator: The Role of James A. Baker, III at the End of the Cold War' defensenews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from defensenews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
By Terence P. Jeffrey | March 2, 2021 | 3:25pm EST
Eric Lander, nominee for director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, speaks after being nominated by President Joe Biden at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., Jan. 16, 2021. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)
(CNSNews.com) - Eric Lander, whom President Joe Biden has nominated to be director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, has opposed actually editing the genes of human embryos while repeatedly advocating as an alternative to gene editing the creation of embryos through in vitro fertilization (IVF), using preimplantation diagnostics (PGD) to determine whether an embryo has a genetic defect or disease and then implanting in the mother’s womb only those who do not.
Biden's Top Science Nominee Advocated 'Preimplantation Genetic Testing' to Decide Which Human Embryo to Keep cnsnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cnsnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.