Sunday Morning Updates
....Jason Giambi singled again last night, as
the Yanks trounced the As, 15-6, for their seventh straight. Then, late in the game, a fan threw a beer on him. "I was just walking down to the dugout, and all of a sudden I smelled like Budweiser," he said. Must have been a visitor from Boston.
...Guess who was paid the most in the airline biz last year? Yup—the CEO of United, Glenn F. Tilton, who received
a compensation package totaling $1.1 million. By contrast, the CEO of profitable Southwest (as opposed to bankrupt United) received only $542,000.
Would the person who left the comment blaming United's troubles on its unions care to address that?
...On his blog,
David Warsh follows up on Alex Beam's scoop that David McClintick is writing a book about the Harvard-HIID scandal. (This story may not be posted until Monday; if you subscribe to the e-mail version, you get it a day early.)
Warsh's take: "What makes Harvard's involvement so interesting is its human dimension. It is essentially the story of a friendship between two of the brightest among the rising generation of economists, Lawrence Summers and Andrei Shleifer. They met and became fast friends in 1979, when Summers was a Harvard teaching fellow and Shleifer was a sophomore student, having emigrated with his parents from the former Soviet Union only two years before...."
Today Summers is a controversy-dogged university president, and Shleifer is defending his reputation in court. But the two men remain close. (Was that Summers' girlfriend Lisa New I saw sitting next to Shleifer at the no-confidence faculty meeting?)
