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Ted Kennedy surgery followed broad research into medical options
Once again, Dr. Lawrence C. Horowitz is providing counsel to the Kennedy family as it confronts a medical crisis.
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Edward M. KennedyThe decision followed a massive research effort led by Horowitz, a former Kennedy aide who has advised the family for more than 20 years.
As the Boston Globe reports today, Horowitz helped the family find innovative treatments for Edward M. Kennedy Jr. when he was diagnosed with a dangerous bone cancer in his right leg. He treated Patrick Kennedy when the 12-year-old suffered an asthma attack on a airline flight. And he devised diets for Ted Kennedy when he considered a presidential run in 1984.
Kennedy’s decision to have surgery followed an analysis by Horowitz and other former staffers, which included discussions with experts at the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies.
“My role is to reach out to everybody everywhere – Mass. General, Brigham, anywhere across the country,” Horowitz told the Globe.
Horowitz, a graduate of Yale Medical School, was staff director of the Senate Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Kennedy, from 1977 to 1981. He later served as Kennedy’s chief of staff.
He is the author of Taking Charge of Your Medical Fate, about researching and assessing health care options.
In issuing his statement this morning, Kennedy didn’t miss the opportunity to campaign for his favorite presidential candidate: “After completing treatment, I look forward to returning to the United States Senate and to doing everything I can to help elect Barack Obama as our next president,” he said.
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Ted Kennedy Undergoing Surgery After Broad Research Into Medical Options
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ABC, NBC and CBS join forces for Stand up to Cancer
The entertainment industry is banding together to combat cancer. The Stand up to Cancer campaign launched last week, with a celebrity-filled event at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills.
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Couric, one of the leaders of Stand up to Cancer, lost her husband to the disease in 1998. Other heads of the organization include former Paramount Pictures chair Sherry Lansing, and Spider-Man producer Laura Ziskin.
Stand Up to Cancer plans to serve as an umbrella organization to bring together other cancer nonprofits to raise funds for cancer research. The American Association for Cancer Research, the Entertainment Industry Foundation and the Noreen Fraser Foundation are among the leading organizations working with Stand Up to Cancer. Others include the Lance Armstrong Foundation, the American Cancer Society and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
Major League Baseball, Revlon, AOL, and the AARP are corporate sponsors.
In addition to the TV special, the organization will also produce TV, radio and print public service announcements, the first of which is featured on its website. Celebrities such as Larry David, Morgan Freeman, Tony Hawk, Tobey Maguire, Jodie Foster and Lance Armstrong have appeared in the organization’s first videos.
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Medallion Financial’s portfolio: taxis, teams and anti-terrorism
Since its beginnings, Medallion Financial has been guided by a catchy core philosophy: “In niches there are riches.”
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Who knew, decades ago, that taxis could be so valuable? Polish immigrant Leo Murstein knew.
It’s unlikely, though, that even Murstein, who bought his first medallion for $10 in 1937, envisioned what his enterprise would become. Medallion Financial (Nasdaq:TAXI) is now a publicly traded company whose board includes baseball great Hank Aaron, former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and former Connecticut Gov. and U.S. Sen. Lowell Weicker.
Murstein’s son Alvin and grandson Andrew run the company, and they’re branching out into sectors that could hardly be considered niches. Medallion is a lead investor in public companies looking to acquire sports ventures and security firms.
Sports Properties Acquisition (AMEX:HMR), a Medallion investment chaired by former Buffalo Bills quarterback and U.S. Sen. Jack Kemp, raised $200 million when it went public in January.
Another Medallion venture, National Security Solutions (AMEX:NSX.U), has notified the SEC of its plans for an IPO. The company, which intends to acquire domestic and/or international security firms, is led by Howard Safir, former New York City police and fire commissioner.
Director nominees include Weicker and former homeland security chief Tom Ridge. Advising the company are former FBI director Louis Freeh and former United Nations ambassador Richard Holbrooke.
If portfolios are sociology, there’s a fiddling-while-Rome-burns dimension to the mix of investments.
Sports Properties notes in its annual report:
There has been a continuing increase in attendance at sports and entertainment events, and many cities have expressed interest in having sports teams, including Las Vegas, Houston, Rochester, Orlando, Portland, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Hartford, Winnipeg and Seattle. A significant opportunity exists to establish new franchises, or relocate existing franchises.
The security business is also a booming, as pointed out in the prospectus filed by National Security Solutions:
The homeland security industry is among the fastest growing industries in the world, with a global market that is expected to grow from approximately $55 billion in 2006 to more than $170 billion by 2015 … Over the past few years, consumers, corporations and governments in the United States and abroad have faced a wide range of threats for which security and homeland defense solutions are constantly being sought, including threats to life and safety, physical and identity theft, intellectual property compromise, vandalism, counterfeiting, fraud, industrial espionage, threats to critical infrastructure, threats to fossil fuel supplies from foreign sources and terrorism.
The original source of Medallion’s wealth was an ideal moneymaker: Seemingly unlimited demand for a restricted supply. In New York City, there are only 13,150 cabs with city-regulated medallions. The number is controlled by the city Taxi & Limousine Commission, which reported in December that the average medallion cost $426,000 for individual owners and $600,000 for corporate owners.
Medallion’s trade was built on strong relationships with brokers and cab drivers. The latest ventures also rely heavily on the recruitment of people who are known and trusted, but in much bigger power circles. The celebrity of Kemp, Cuomo, Aaron and Weicker opens doors and reassures investors.
The company may be able to find niches in fields already crowded with competitors. (What multimillionaire doesn’t want his own sports franchise?)
How it fares in the coming months may well depend not only on its acquisition targets, but on its network of contacts.
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Obama expected to appear at DNC fund-raiser in Manhattan
The price of admission is steep: $28,500 a person.
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Next Wednesday’s event at 820 Park Avenue is being hosted by prominent Democratic fund-raisers Jane Hartley and her husband, Ralph Schlosstein, both of whom worked for Jimmy Carter’s White House. Schlosstein recently stepped down as president of Blackrock, Inc., the asset management company. Hartley had been the CEO of the G7 Group, a political and economic research firm.
Both are active in a variety of political and philanthropic causes, and have lived for many years in the iconic building with whole-floor apartments originally erected by a Hearst magnate in the 1920s.
The checks written by about 100 attendees will support a new entity – the Democratic White House Victory Fund – formed by the DNC several weeks ago, in agreement with Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, to support the party’s eventual nominee as well as the DNC, according to a press statement.
“While this is a close primary, at the end of the day both of our candidates understand that this election is about the future of our country,” said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. “In signing this agreement, Senator Clinton and Senator Obama are demonstrating their commitment to unifying our party and ensuring that we have the resources needed to win the White House, no matter who the nominee is.”
After the long and protracted primary contest, the theme of the fund-raiser—slated one day after the final primary – is also unity
But with days to go to the event, the topic remains such a delicate one that sources at the DNC declined to speak on the record about the lineup, saying only that it was their “understanding” that Obama would be the headliner.