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...Maybe there's something to this investment banker business...
...never wanted to be a banker," Shemmer says. "But I thought they were the nicest people...
...Shemmer sings the praises of the investment banker's life, we're speeding in a cab across the George Washington Bridge into New Jersey. Broadview's "New York" office is actually in Fort Lee, N.J.--not exactly Wall Street. One analyst tells me later that "it's nice to be in a suburban area. It has its advantages--it makes a more relaxed attitude at work." "Relaxed" isn't the first word that springs to mind, though. The office is in a bland white building overlooking the interstate on one side and a busy street lined with fast-food restaurants...
...turn. Smiling alongside Sanford Weill and John Reed, the co-chairmen of Citigroup, the 61-year-old financier confirmed that he would help them run the nation's largest financial conglomerate (1998 assets: $669 billion). Rubin's timing, as usual, is perfect. Just as the former Goldman Sachs investment banker climbs back into the spotlight, Congress is preparing to vote on a historic bill that plays legislative catch-up with Citi's 1998 merger with Travelers, the insurance outfit that also owns Salomon Smith Barney. Rubin never made financial modernization his priority in government; nevertheless he will now help direct...
...that men might be that much more profoundly alarming than even we girls imagined, and that we girls are not the only angst uncertain ones out there in the universe. The violent form this angst is taking is even more disturbing - the thought that that pretty boy I-banker that sits next to us on the train may be harboring thoughts of man-anguish chaos certainly disturbs me. I think I may prefer an abstract Mr. Willis shooting down the entire world than this haunting - and scarily authentic - perception of my American yuppie. This new analysis of men, however, plucks...