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...Long Term Capital, whose seasoned investors had nearly doubled their money from 1994 to 1997, could have got so deeply in trouble. The fund was headed by legendary trader John Meriwether, who helped make Salomon Brothers the top bond house of the 1980s, as recounted in the best seller Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis. The partners, who worked out of waterfront offices in tony Greenwich, Conn., included Nobel-prizewinning economists Myron Scholes and Robert Merton and former Fed Vice Chairman David Mullins. As their price for the bailout, the creditors acquired a 90% stake in the fund, which effectively...
...while. It was never a drug I really enjoyed. It got to that stage where you're not real social. You become a liar and a thief as well, which isn't very good...
...Montana construction site as they huddled around a radio news analysis of the Starr report wasn't so much the adultery and lying--no angels themselves, they didn't really care--but the fact that the President and Commander in Chief was such a lousy adulterer and liar. For these men, to get caught red-handed in a fling easily manageable by any Joe capable of running a screw gun raised questions of Clinton's basic masculine competence. Indeed, if the Starr report could be believed, America's alpha male was something worse than a sinner or a lawbreaker...
...gets worse over time because we build up a tolerance. Artifice that seemed outrageous during the Carter Administration seems routine today--not because the Clinton folks are inherently less honest, but just because it's 20 years later. Third, the celebrity culture imposes its own moral neutrality: a famous liar is famous, which is what counts...
...existential play," he says. "It's very simple, done on a very simple budget, and that was part of it--to make a simple film." But Universal Pictures, which held the rights, always laughed him off. Good Will Hunting's grosses and the clout of producer Brian Grazer (Liar Liar and Apollo 13) helped bring the studio around...