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...difficult to explain, even for the distinguished explainer Martin Mayer. Following an arcane account of a portfolio-hedging strategy, he writes, "You can read it twice, or three times, or you can take my word for it." Which is sound advice. Mayer has been one of the educated layman's best guides to the covert worlds of Wall Street and finance. The Bankers (1974) was a best seller. More recent books include The Fate of the Dollar (1980) and The Money Bazaars...
...reform law is a brier patch of ambiguities, shifting rules and vanishing preferences. The tax code contains hundreds of changes this year, for which the IRS has published 48 new tax forms. At least one new IRS release is a hit: Publication 920, which explains tax reform in layman's language. Copies requested so far: 17 million...
...Arthur later fulfilled. But Paul's dreams were shaped by reading the autobiography of William Allen White, the publisher of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette. "In grade school," Arthur says, "Paul began talking about owning a weekly newspaper and going into politics." To this day, Simon remains a devout Lutheran layman...
Because of fundraising successes like Harvard's own recent $350 million campaign, universities have the money to lure intellectuals to their campuses. And in the process, ideas about society are becoming less accessible to the layman. Metropolitan intellect, Bender argues, is at the same time growing more and more irrelevent...
Waite's religious work has not been confined to the Anglican Church. Between 1972 and 1979 he served in Rome as an adviser to the Vatican on African missionary activities. He returned to London in 1980 to accept his current post with Runcie, thus becoming the first layman to be a personal aide to an Archbishop of Canterbury. While the job description called for someone who could handle mail and maintain links between the Archbishop and his 70 million-strong Anglican following around the world, Waite was not cut out for a desk job. The towering...