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Boiler Room traces the steps of 19 year-old Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi), a college dropout who enters into a success-driven, overly aggressive stock brokerage firm, which happens to be one of the biggest scams in American history. J.T. Marlin brokerage firm recruits money-hungry, twenty-something, want-to-be brokers, who know nothing and want nothing but money...
Later that day, Thomas G. Nelford, a Columbia dropout and alleged cocaine addict known for his artistic ability, threw himself in front of a Manhattan subway train. He was found carrying Roskot's wallet...
Last October, Harvard opened a brand-new facility for computer science, the Maxwell-Dworkin building, funded largely by Harvard's most famous dropout who founded a start-up: Bill Gates, class...
Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Thornton Dial, a grade-school dropout, says he has been "making stuff" all his life. As a child, he assembled toys out of odds and ends, and as he grew older, he continued to tinker with scraps of this and that in his spare time when he wasn't working as a carpenter, house painter, cement mixer and ironworker. But it was only in 1980, when he found himself unemployed at age 52, that he began to pour all his time and accumulated skill and experience into his creations: powerful depictions of human relationships...
Although the founder of Microsoft undoubtedly spends most of his time "innovating" and exercising his monopoly power in the software industry, the famed Harvard dropout is also responsible for offering $400 to every man, woman and child in California...