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...notes of his time spent at Vogue. Since the publication of that sartorial magnum opus, the nearly 120-year-old magazine has suffered a downturn in size and ad pages, making “The September Issue” seem like an unknowingly somber look at an era of excess gone by. Cutler insists that the ostentatious wealth was not a focal point during filming. “I think one of the things the film succeeds at doing is showing the incredibly hard work and artistry that is pervasive through the industry, even while it has a frivolous side...
...comes to weight gain, the timing of your meals may be just as important as what or how much you eat. According to a study of lab animals published online by the journal Obesity, eating during the hours that the body would naturally be sleeping may lead to excess weight gain...
...Three years ago, Gaddafi opted to invest his excess oil revenues in a sovereign wealth fund called the Libyan Investment Authority, which has rocketed in value thanks to soaring oil prices on the world market. The fund has about $65 billion in capital, part of which Libya has used to build five-star resorts in African capitals and to run Afriqiyah Airways, which crisscrosses the Mediterranean to European cities...
...shocked that others saw it as being supporting evidence that Goldman Sachs had burned down the Reichstag, shot the Archduke Ferdinand and fired on Fort Sumter." Suddenly a firm that few Americans know or understand has become part of the zeitgeist, the symbol of irresponsible Wall Street excess, the recovery from which has pushed the nation's treasury to the brink. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
Cohan, a contributing editor at FORTUNE, is the author, most recently, of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street...