Word: backgrounders
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...class. In the class-of-'75 yearbook, Bernanke was pictured near Blankfein, who was wearing a fashionable houndstooth blazer with groovy wide lapels. Blankfein then enrolled at Harvard Law School, from which he graduated in 1978. "At some point, I can't say that I had a disadvantaged background," he says. "After a while, I kind of evolved into having an advantaged background." Following law school, he was hired at Donovan, Leisure as a corporate tax lawyer. (See the top 10 financial collapses...
...applied for banking jobs at Dean Witter, Morgan Stanley and Goldman. He did not make the cut in Goldman's famously exhaustive recruitment process (or at the other two firms either). "It wasn't a nutty decision. I was a lawyer," he says. "I didn't have a finance background." Instead, in 1982 he landed a job as a gold salesman for J. Aron & Co., an obscure commodities firm that Goldman had purchased in November 1981 for about $100 million. According to the Wall Street Journal, when Blankfein told his then fiancée Laura - now his wife and the mother...
...case broke after Garrido was spotted Tuesday with two children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature. Officers said he was acting suspiciously toward the children. They questioned him and did a background check, determined that he was a parolee and informed his parole officer...
...former CIA senior officer told me it was not as simple as that. CIA management had its doubts from the beginning. Its first choice to handle the interrogations was the Office of Security. But the idea was quickly rejected when management realized security officers - who conduct background investigations, operate polygraph machines, and supervise the guard force that protects CIA facilities - also knew nothing about "hostile interrogations," as they once were referred...
...attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told the New York Post. To get a sense of what Burress's counseling sessions might be like, TIME caught up with Steven Oberfest, a personal trainer and martial-arts expert who bills himself as the industry's creator. The founder of Prison Coach, Oberfest - whose background includes a 15-month stint in a New York prison on racketeering charges - has been preparing wealthy convicts for their incarceration since 2002. He talked to TIME about the business of prison prep and the dos and don'ts of inmate etiquette...