D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams, who won preliminary approval from the D.C. Council to build a publicly funded baseball stadium in Southeast, plus a vote by the board of the Washington Convention Center Authority to put the city's largest hotel on a site the mayor favors.
Chen Jiulin, chief executive of China Aviation Oil (Singapore), a Chinese state-controlled jet-fuel supplier, who was suspended after the firm disclosed it had lost at least $550 million on a speculative bet in oil derivatives.
