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Stories from July 2008

Judge rules that White House staffers can be subpoenaed

By A. James Memmott   |   July 31, 2008 at 5:15pm   |   0 Comments

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 Comments

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 Comments

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 Comments

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 Comments

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 Comments

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 Comments

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 Comments

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 Comments

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 Comments

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.


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