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...here has brought a lot of positive change for me, but there have been some unwelcome introductions. Before Harvard, I had never received a letter grade in a class. I had no idea what a hedge fund was, what consultants did, or that people actually aspired to be investment bankers. (I only knew that being a banker earned you the most cash in “Oregon Trail” but that you got docked serious character points.) Before Harvard, my world was blissfully free of grade grubbing—there were no grades to be grubbed. Before Harvard, interest...
...narrowed down the list of possible speakers to 10, before choosing Paulson at the end of March. That was two months before Paulson was chosen as the next man to sign his name on the dollar bill. Paulson joined the Chicago office of Goldman Sachs in 1974. The investment banker rose through the ranks of the famous firm to become its top officer in 1999. Paulson will be succeeded by Lloyd C. Blankfein ’75, a former Winthrop House resident who is currently the second-in-command at Goldman Sachs. If Paulson is confirmed by the Senate...
...onscreen wife, and Leo G. Carroll, on the hugely popular 1950s TV sitcom Topper; in Brentwood, Calif. Sterling played George Kerby, who, with wife Marion, dies in a skiing accident, then returns to his former home where the spectral couple end up coaching new occupant Cosmo Topper--a cranky banker and the only person who can see the Kerbys--on how to enjoy life...
...dogged by numerous accusations of cheating in the recent investigative book Game of Chance. Beyond his links with ACPCO (Atlantic City Probability Co-Operative), whose tentacles may also extend to top players in Yahtzee and Boggle, the authors charge Gilmore with creating diversions so he can steal from the banker and raise suspicion regarding his "statistically improbable" penchant for winning second prize in beauty contests. Adding insult to injury, an ex-girlfriend recently claimed that Gilmore bought her countless diamond rings in the early '90s with money from bank errors in his favor - and never paid the required $75.00 luxury...
...posse cruises London in Ravi's lilac BMW - "spoiler, alloy hubcaps that kept on spinnin at red traffic lights an matchin lilac windscreen wipers" - looking for "fit" women and making pocket money reprogramming stolen cell phones. That scam leads them into partnership with a menacing Indian ex?investment banker, and they're soon in over their heads. At the same time, Jas loses his head over Samira, a gorgeous Hounslow girl with one life-threatening defect: she's Muslim. With her three disapproving brothers, the ex-banker's hired thugs and his own former buddies all gunning...