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...dear friend and colleague John Stauffer calls “passionate outsiders”—those despised misfits on the margins of society who happen to look or love or act differently than those at the centers of power and privilege. Perhaps I’ve been drawn to these people because I am one of them. Indeed, we share a sacred bond, one born of exclusion and yet nurtured by the desire not just to be included but to be respected equally and loved fully as human beings...
...unfulfilled dreams. It may seem surprising that, on a campus seemingly dominated by the specter of e-recruiting, only four percent of students cite investment banking as their dream job. This confirms what many have guessed: For whatever reason, be it money, prestige, or just convenience, students are drawn into finance despite having aspirations that lie elsewhere...
...howls at the moon. By contrast, the eyes in any face painted by him are likely to be missing entirely or smeared shut or obscured by a milky scrim. In Bacon's pictures, the windows of the soul - not that he believed in the soul - always have the curtains drawn...
...firm called KIT Finance, which defaulted on its debt when the markets shut down; it was rescued by an investment arm of the state energy giant Gazprom. Other erstwhile high-flying financial firms in Russia remain at risk. According to the business newspaper Kommersant, the Russian central bank has drawn up a "red list" of 15 other second-tier banks that, like KIT, are in urgent need of financial assistance...
...massive best seller. A few floors up, another writer, Philip, a Pulitzer winner who has fallen on hard times (he's at work on a screenplay titled--in a nod to Waugh--Bridesmaids Revisited), is sleeping with his 22-year-old gold-digging assistant, Lola, a viciously, flawlessly drawn avatar of the rising generation of postfeminist girl-women. But Philip still yearns for an old flame: Schiffer, an Oscar-winning actress whose new TV show is turning out to be a smash hit. Among these characters moves gentle, sophisticated, thwarted Billy Litchfield, a kind of freelance Guy Friday to rich...