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Amusement soon turned to panic when it became apparent that no one at Harvard really wanted to talk to me about being preppy. Something about the popped collar seems to strike a nerve on both sides of the equation—both those who hate the look and those who love it proved equally passionate...
This is even more apparent when looking at the response that a Georgetown Lampoon article (“Wearing Your Collar Down is for Poor People”) triggered. The humor piece begins, “When my ancestors came over to this great country 400 years ago, they had a vision for a utopia, free from minorities, liberals, poor people, homosexuals, and immigrants,” and goes on to say, “Maybe I’ll offer you a hundred bucks to flip my collar up for me. I earned it, you middle-class...
...keeping information to themselves and filing paper reports. There was no computer network permitting broad searches for terms like Arabs and flight schools. The FBI's greasy pole was tilted, leaning away from counterterrorism work and toward the traditional pursuit of such crimes as Mob activity, kidnapping and white-collar offenses. Intelligence work? That was the last thing an up-and-coming agent wanted to do. "Traditional agents who weren't good on the street were put into intelligence," said Jack Lawn, a veteran FBI agent who later ran the Drug Enforcement Administration. "There was no measure of success...
Office Space notwithstanding, the life of the white-collar wage slave is chronically underchronicled, and one wonders, with all the suburban epics out there, why aren't there more office novels? Granted, with all the undead mayhem, there are moments when Hynes seems to lose track of what exactly he's trying to say about office life. Should we fear the zombified Dilberts that threaten Paul's sanity or pity them? After all, what office drone hasn't felt his or her humanity being leached away by carpeted walls and racks of low-hanging fluorescent lamps at $5.25 an hour...
...Warren Buffett, the man who built Berkshire Hathaway into the most successful investment vehicle in history. That would be enough if he weren't also the repository of all that is honest and wise in finance, someone who should be exhibit A in all the white collar prosecutions under way. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, despite the protestations of the defendant that he didn't know that what he did was wrong, we present you with Warren Buffett, who made fortunes without cutting a single corner, without being greedy and without a whiff of scandal...