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...clubby Landsdowne Street, my friends and I were ready to celebrate the end of finals, our common past and our assorted futures. But when our cab-ride conversation turned to the latter subject, one of my friends became embittered, questioning his forthcoming years in the workforce as an investment banker. “How long will I have to put future gain in front of my happiness?” he fretfully asked, probably more to himself more than to us. I was so struck that this accomplished academic, Phi Beta Kappa and soon-to-be graduate could be unhappy...
...feuds. Last year, for example, Sunni and Shi'ite gunmen marked each other's doctors and lawyers for assassination. President Pervez Musharraf waved off calls for the federal government to step in to curtail further bloodshed, saying he would refrain from "panic reactions." Fearing more attacks, a banker says he won't let his boys attend Friday sermons: "It's better to miss your prayers than to lose...
CONVICTED. FRANK QUATTRONE, 48, star investment banker who shepherded some of the hottest companies of the dotcom stock boom to the public market and made $120 million in 2000 at Credit Suisse First Boston; of obstructing justice and witness tampering; in New York City. His first trial last fall ended in a hung jury...
...driven families out of public education and broken the color-blind promise of Brown. "Having grown up here, I just thought it was wrong to break up the local schools and destroy what had been focal points of communities for somebody else's ideal," says the investment banker and father of four...
When Courtney Zierden was choosing a gown for her June wedding, she bristled at the thought of wearing white. "I'm not 22," says the 37-year-old investment banker. "I thought, What am I going to look like in a white dress?" Still, she tried on some 50 ensembles--many of which were white from top to bottom--before deciding on a strapless gown with Wedgwood blue tulle flowers appliqued on an ivory bodice. "The blue really did it for me," she says. "It made me feel like I was doing something that was a little bit different...