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...stocks, bonds, mortgages, corn, hogs, etc., owned by regular people in the real world, which the derivative people refer to as "the underlying." These abstract concoctions are floating over the real world of stocks, bonds, corn and hogs in the same way that the island of Laputa, that fanciful domain of theorizers and stargazers, floated over real towns and villages in Gulliver's Travels...
...have been served an especially big slice: about $30 million. Since Goldman is a private partnership, it is not required to make public its finances. Nonetheless, the telltale numbers from a Goldman prospectus made their way into Investment Dealers' Digest. Other bits of evidence occasionally fall into the public domain. When Goldman co-chairman Robert Rubin quit to work as a presidential adviser, his disclosure statement reported a 1992 income from Goldman of $26.5 million...
...Long the domain of beretwearing intellectuals, the French government now appears to have joined the struggle--insisting on cultural purity...
Myra Carter caps a long career with a dazzling portrait of a dowager, whom she plays both in full command of her gilded domain and at the breaking point of senile decay. Marian Seldes, who won a 1967 Tony Award in Albee's A Delicate Balance, has never been better as a protective but peevish nurse- companion in the first act and the dowager herself in the second, which is a fantasy conversation among embodiments of the same woman at three stages of life. Jordan Baker, who plays a young lawyer and then the dowager at a callow 26, looks...
...political liberalism, intelligence, religiosity, cancer and blue eyes among the many aspects of human life for which it is claimed that biology is destiny. Physicists have been pilloried for years for this kind of reductionism, but in biology it makes everybody happy: the scientists and pharmaceutical companies expand their domain; politicians have "progress" to point to; the smokers, divorces and serial killers get to blame their problems on biology, and we get the satisfaction of knowing they are sick -- not like...