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Money is what made it possible for Jon Corzine, the bearded, bespectacled and besweatered former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs, running on an unabashed liberal platform, to go from near anonymity to beat former Governor Jim Florio in last week's New Jersey primary. His open wallet opened the minds of many Democratic bosses to his novice candidacy--he even put spouses of party officials and a county chair on the payroll. Spending about $140 per vote cast, sprinkling more than $2 million in get-out-the-vote money around the state, he might as well have ferried each voter...
...dotcom way, as one of the most successful, nerves-of-steel bond traders in Wall Street history. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Illinois and a former Marine, he worked his way through the University of Chicago's business school and up the ladder at Goldman. Although he lost his co-chairmanship of the firm in a complicated power struggle, he made no blood enemies. Flashy he's not. He has no private jet, no trophy wife. He's been married for 31 years to his kindergarten sweetheart and has three kids. He's given away millions...
...tantalizing subjects (the immigrant experience in An American Tail, the historical romance in Anastasia) without freshening them. But Bluth's best film, The Land Before Time, was set in the distant past, where he was freed from his tendency for painterly realism. Here he and co-director Gary Goldman use 3-D computer technology, and some very talented designers, to dream up a world--a galaxy--of marvelous sights, spaceships, planets, vistas and critters. And when it shifts into action mode, the movie can be a spectacular rush. It's the video game that plays...
Some, like Shannon May '99-00, say that the financial training she will receive at Goldman, Sachs in New York will provide her with the training she needs to be a viable leader for a non-profit organization...
...students heading to Goldman, Sachs or McKinsey like to talk about the experience they will gain, the loans they have to repay, and the excitement of the job, but no one mentions the inflated salaries or the ease of the job search...