Stories from July 2008
Judge rules that White House staffers can be subpoenaed
By A. James Memmott | July 31, 2008 at 5:15pm | 0
A setback for the Bush administration came from a Bush appointee and former Kenneth Starr associate today.
Google wants to take on the venture capitalists
By Laurie Bennett | July 31, 2008 at 10:08am | 1
Google is planning a venture-capital division, to be headed by David Drummond, company SVP and chief legal officer.
Clark Rockefeller may have fabricated identity before abducting daughter
By Carol Eisenberg | July 30, 2008 at 3:17pm | 8
Clark Rockefeller led people to believe he was the scion of the wealthy Rockefeller clan.
Peter R. Kellogg continues to build fortune through offshore company
By Laurie Bennett | July 30, 2008 at 3:08pm | 0
Billionaire investor Peter R. Kellogg has engaged in some high-stakes trading in recent weeks.
Michelle Obama, but not Cindy McCain, makes Vanity Fair’s best dressed list
By Carol Eisenberg | July 30, 2008 at 2:19pm | 0
Some will call it political bias, or perhaps, more evidence of the swooning comparisons between the Obamas and the Kennedys by a besotted media.
Ted Stevens charged with seven counts in corruption probe
By Carol Eisenberg | July 29, 2008 at 2:14pm | 0
Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate and a major power in Alaska politics, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts.
Cuil vs. Google: no contest so far
By Carol Eisenberg | July 29, 2008 at 11:35am | 0
Cuil isn’t the first, and it won’t be the last startup to experience embarrassing bugs - including an out-and-out crash - on its first day out.
Larry McMurtry’s enduring passion: buying books
By Gary Jacobson | July 29, 2008 at 9:31am | 0
Larry McMurtry’s latest book, titled simply Books, is a memoir of his many decades as a book dealer. One of his favorite activities, he writes, has always been buying books. Lots of books.
Big overlap between SemGroup LP and SemGroup Energy Partners execs
By Gary Jacobson | July 29, 2008 at 7:14am | 0
It’s not clear what impact SemGroup LP’s bankruptcy ultimately will have on its publicly traded subsidiary, SemGroup Energy Partners. What is clear, though, is how closely the companies share executives.
Tobacco lobby prefers McCain over Obama (if it must pick one)
By Carol Eisenberg | July 28, 2008 at 9:55am | 0
Sen. Barack Obama may be the only smoker running for president, but the occasional snapshot of him taking a puff has not endeared him to the powerful tobacco lobby.
