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Wasserstein sometimes elicits pity when she is reaching for empathy. In "Jean Harlow's Wedding Night," she describes arranging a trip to Paris to be there at the same time as a banker she has been dating, then his trying to sneak off in the morning without saying goodbye. He tells her he is involved with someone else. She slips into near hysteria, making jokes (she says they are funny) about the waiter, the croissants, the plates, the Ayatullah. They part, but she calls him later in the day to have dinner at a "hilariously hip restaurant." Of course...
...villains. Congress upped the authorization to $75 million, but the Administration balked. "If the violators don't believe they're going to be caught and stiffly sentenced, they're going to keep doing it," warned Georgia Democrat Doug Barnard Jr., the subcommittee's chairman and a former banker himself. "We will give the Administration the tools to put the crooks in jail. All they have to do is put in a budget request...
When Third-World nations default on their massive foreign debt, we could do what your hometown banker does when you miss too many car payments--repossess the country and sell it in the classifieds...
...Some critics attack Wall Street firms for profiting from both the debt buildup of the '80s and the subsequent spate of failures. "There ought to be something unethical about cashing in on the way up and on the way down," says novelist Michael Thomas (Hanover Place), a former investment banker. "It's like a doctor who builds a trade infecting people and then purports to cure them. This would raise ethical questions anywhere but on Wall Street...
...Wall Street banker told me that with $50 million he could get rid of homelessness in New York," he said. "But it isn't a pool of people. It's a surging stream coming in from all over the country...