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...course. Weirdoes everywhere. The thing that happened that was frightening was not so much related - maybe peripherally related - to the Year of Yes, to the dating stuff. Somebody, who I maybe knew, broke into my apartment towards the end of the year, and just sort of - I was there, I was asleep - watched me sleep, apparently. Took nothing. Just turned on all of the lights, stayed in my apartment, and broke my lock. That was scary. I thought, is this one of the people I had dated? I don't know who it was. It did no harm, but terrified...
...City, this story! Sex in the City always rubbed me the wrong way, because it was so glamorous. My life was so not glamorous - we went to diners, we went to greasy spoons, we went to falafel places. It was really down and dirty. I was broke, too. I had no money at all. I was at NYU, putting myself through school, working like four jobs. So mostly it was just cup of coffee, glass of cheap wine. I still can't drink red wine. I can never drink it again, because it was just cheap red wine...
...abilities by promising to invest $500 million in his hedge fund. But because Meyer is no longer an in-house employee, the University will pay him substantially more, in the form of performance fees, for his services. His critics should learn their lesson: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The system was doing very well by any standards; there was no need to protest in the way that they did. We are confident that Mohamed A. El-Erian, the new manager of the endowment, will do a fantastic job in his new post...
...Monday night, Aug. 29, several hours after the levees broke in New Orleans, then-FEMA director Michael Brown called the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas and told his deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, "we are realizing our worst nightmares... New Orleans is flooded." In his testimony before the Senate Homeland Security Committee today, Brown said he couldn't remember if George W. Bush got on the phone that night or not. He may have, said Brown. "Not to sound arrogant," he told the Senators, "but I speak to the President...
According to the Yale Daily News, he broke a self-imposed media silence last fall in concurrence with the launch of his new book “Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment...