The initiative is called the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, and the moving spirit here is Geoffrey Boisi, a major player in New
York financial circles and former chairman of the board of Boston College.
Relations were much friendlier in the earliest days of the investigation, in summer 2007, when Mr. Cuomo's office began scrutinizing the tiny
circle of associates around State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi, who had positioned themselves as middlemen between
financial firms seeking investments from the New
York State Common Retirement Fund — the third largest pension fund in the country — and the public officials who controlled how the money was invested.
Without all that inconvenient ice in the way, cable - laying ships can put in place a direct optical link along the great
circle between New
York and Tokyo, shaving precious microseconds off arbitrage deals on
financial markets.