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• Class War: The Poors To Protest New York's Richest At Waldorf-Astoria At Noon

  Published: September 19, 2007, 9:20 am

  Tags: Acorn, Carlyle Group, Class War, David Rubenstein, Private Equity, The Poors, The Riches, Top

  White financiers are all flooding up to the Waldorf Astoria this morning for the opening of today's Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst confab! The topics and the attendees are undeniably sexy; Paul...

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• Private- Equity Tax Hike Falters

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Private, Equity, Tax, Hike, Falters, Harry Reid, Charles Rangel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Amp Feld Llp, Patton Boggs Llp, The Blackstone Group Lp, Capitol Hill, Jim Manley, Bloomberg Lp, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, The Carlyle Group Llc, Carol Guthrie, David M Rube

  Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has told private-equity firms in recent weeks that a tax-hike proposal they have spent millions of dollars to defeat will not get through the Senate this year, according to executives and lobbyists.

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• Private- Equity Tax Hike Falters

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Private, Equity, Tax, Hike, Falters, Harry Reid, Charles Rangel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Amp Feld Llp, Patton Boggs Llp, The Blackstone Group Lp, Capitol Hill, Jim Manley, Bloomberg Lp, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, The Carlyle Group Llc, Carol Guthrie, David M Rube

  Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has told private-equity firms in recent weeks that a tax-hike proposal they have spent millions of dollars to defeat will not get through the Senate this year, according to executives and lobbyists.

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• Buyout Firms to Avoid a Tax Hike

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Buyout, Firms, Avoid, Tax, Hike, Harry Reid, Charles Rangel, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Amp Feld Llp, Patton Boggs Llp, The Blackstone Group Lp, Capitol Hill, Jim Manley, Bloomberg Lp, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, The Carlyle Group Llc, Carol Guthrie, David M Ruben

  Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has told private-equity firms in recent weeks that a tax-hike proposal they have spent millions of dollars to defeat will not get through the Senate this year, according to executives and lobbyists.

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• Hegemonic Carlyle Group Buys Two Small Meatpacking Buildings

  Published: October 16, 2007, 7:22 pm

  Tags: Real Estate, The Carlyle Group Llc

  news all the stranger: The Carlyle Group has purchased two tiny buildings in the meatpacking district, according to city records. It purchased, along with Sitt Asset Management, a 9,900-square-foot building at 414 West 14th Street and the 16,100-square-foot 416-418 West 14th Street for $70 million from the Icon Group. The Carlyle Group

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• Under Pressure, Carlyle Issues Patient Promise

  Published: October 22, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Under, Pressure, Carlyle, Issues, Patient, Promise, Manor Care Inc, Chuck Grassley, Max Baucus, Service Employees International Union, Iowa, The Carlyle Group Llc, Andy Mcdonald, David Goldstein, Karen H Bechtel, Richard Drezen, Toledo, Centers For Medicare Amp Medicaid S

  The Carlyle Group, under siege for weeks by a labor union critical of its $6.3 billion purchase of Manor Care nursing homes, has taken the rare step of putting in writing its promise to provide adequate staffing and resources to the chain.

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• Carlyle to Partner With Education Firm

  Published: October 23, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Carlyle, Partner, Education, Firm, Apollo Group Inc, University Of Phoenix, Brooke B Coburn, John Sperling, Puerto Rico, Washington Dc, Forbes Media Llc, The Carlyle Group Llc, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Phoenix, Canada, Institute For Professional Development, Mexico

  Carlyle Group, the D.C. private-equity firm, has formed a $1 billion joint venture with distance-learning giant Apollo Group that will invest in the growing international education services sector, the firms announced yesterday.

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• Carlyle Considered Buying Out Sprint

  Published: October 29, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Carlyle, Considered, Buying, Out, Sprint, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Colin Blaydon, Gary Forsee, At Amp T Inc, Cowen Group Inc, Global Telecommunications, Pine Creek Partners, The Carlyle Group Llc, Verizon Communications Inc, Bill Conway, Bill Kennard, Daniel Akerson

  A year ago, just after its first anniversary as a combined company, Sprint Nextel appeared ripe for the picking.

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• Brijit Cuts Magazine Pile Down to Bite-Size Pieces

  Published: October 29, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Brijit, Cuts, Magazine, Pile, Down, Bite Size, Pieces, Jeremy Brosowsky, Mark Edmiston, Espn Inc, Facebook Inc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Myspace Inc, National Review Inc, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic Monthly Group, The Carlyle Group Llc, The Reader S Digest Associa

  The magazines stack up, unread, on your coffee table: the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair. You subscribe to them but don't have time to read them. So there they sit, a glossy pile of guilt.

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• Manor Care Plans To Restructure After Takeover by Carlyle

  Published: November 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Manor, Care, Plans, Restructure, After, Takeover, Carlyle, Manor Care Inc, Richard Parr, John Dingell, Toby Edelman, Toledo, Service Employees International Union, Maryland, Virginia, Health Care And Retirement Corp, The Carlyle Group Llc, Andrew Mcdonnell, Medicare

  Manor Care plans to restructure its operations once Carlyle Group completes its $6.3 billion takeover of the nation's largest nursing-home chain, a move critics say could obscure ownership and make it more difficult to regulate care.

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• An Area Ripe for Buyouts

  Published: November 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Area, Ripe, For, Buyouts, United States, Asia, Middle East, China, The Carlyle Group Llc, Benjamin Franklin, David Rubenstein, Iraq, Northern Virginia Technology Council, Washington Dc

  Carlyle Group co-founder David Rubenstein, in a speech at the Northern Virginia Technology Council's annual banquet, spoke about what's in store for the private-equity industry after summer's credit market turmoil. Here are excerpts:

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• U.S. Buyout Kings Bet on China

  Published: November 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Buyout, Kings, Bet, China, United States, China National Chemical Corporation, The Carlyle Group Llc, Hong Kong, Texas, The Blackstone Group Lp, China Pacific Life Insurance, Dealogic Holdings Plc, Ibm Corporation, Colin Blaydon, David M Rubenstein, Michael Prall

  Some of the biggest and most powerful dealmakers in the United States have found a way to keep the buyout boom going: by aggressively pushing into China.

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• U.S. Buyout Kings Bet on China

  Published: November 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Buyout, Kings, Bet, China, United States, China National Chemical Corporation, The Carlyle Group Llc, Hong Kong, Texas, The Blackstone Group Lp, China Pacific Life Insurance, Dealogic Holdings Plc, Ibm Corporation, Colin Blaydon, David M Rubenstein, Michael Prall

  Some of the biggest and most powerful dealmakers in the United States have found a way to keep the buyout boom going: by aggressively pushing into China.

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• Carlyle In Talks to Buy Unit of Booz Allen

  Published: January 16, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Carlyle, Talks, Buy, Unit, Booz, Allen, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc, Ralph W Shrader, Financial Times Ltd, Pga Tour Inc, The Carlyle Group Llc, United Defense Industries Inc, Vought Aircraft Industries Inc, Christopher Ullman, Marie Lerch, Mclean Virginia, Northern

  The Carlyle Group is in talks with Booz Allen Hamilton to purchase the technology and consulting firm's government business, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.

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• In Heat of Battle, Darman Put Taxes Back on the Table

  Published: January 26, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Heat, Battle, Darman, Put, Taxes, Back, The, Table, George W Bush, Ronald Reagan, David Stockman, Bill Clinton, Thomas Scully, U S Republican Party, Aes Corporation, The Carlyle Group Llc, Andrews Air Force Base, Arlington, Dan Rostenkowski, George H W Bush, Newt Gi

  From his spacious quarters in the Old Executive Office Building in 1990, White House budget director Richard G. Darman ran one of the most skillful -- and fateful -- budget battles in modern political and economic history. For a year, the battle commanded Washington's attention and briefly shut d...

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