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During three decades as the head of financial-services consulting firm Greenwich Associates, Charley Ellis had a front-row view of Goldman Sachs' rise from also-ran to king of Wall Street. He then spent a decade working on a history of the firm, published last year as The Partnership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much Profit at Goldman and Morgan? | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

In his book, Ellis traces Goldman's successful management approach to the firm's slow recovery from near failure and mortal embarrassment after the 1929 stock-market crash. (An investment fund it launched was one of the era's biggest disasters.) Goldmanites had no choice but to stick together and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much Profit at Goldman and Morgan? | 7/27/2009 | See Source »

At the prestigious ellerslie international Flower Show, held in March in Christchurch, New Zealand, locally born Crusaders and All Blacks scrum-half Andy Ellis did something that rugby players aren't generally known for: he picked up a gardening award. He had help from landscape-architect mate Danny Kamo, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When You're in Christchurch | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

None of the people of Christchurch would be surprised to learn of Ellis' green fingers. The South Island's largest city is obsessive about greenery, famed for its meticulously manicured greenswards - many of them rose gardens in the English style - and fully deserving of its "Garden City" tagline. Edwardian punts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When You're in Christchurch | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

Volunteering at church. Working part-time at a bookstore. Selling real estate. All are worthwhile pursuits, but not exactly what Peter Marshall thought he'd be doing after he graduated from Vanderbilt Law School this spring. Particularly since he received a coveted offer last September to join a white-shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Rookie Lawyers Get $60,000 Paid Vacations | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

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