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...lunches, or the exquisite illustrations and typography of the Book of Prefaces he spent more than a decade fussing over, have rarely reverberated beyond Glasgow or his faithful readers. Glass portrays an artist too engrossed in his own creativity to notice. Gray, a jack of all trades, is master of one: himself...
...firm's game to fit the times, the markets, the opportunities and Goldman's talent--managing partners like the brilliant and charming seventh-grade dropout from Brooklyn, Sidney Weinberg (a.k.a. "Mr. Wall Street"); the worldly, turbocharged Gus Levy; and John Whitehead, whose prescience helped shape the firm into a master of the financial universe in the 1980s. U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, now a flummoxed bureaucrat in the hot seat, also ran the show after forcing out Jon Corzine...
...It’s possible it’s genetic: my dad has yet to master the email. Or maybe being raised by a psychoanalyst doubling as a mother ingrained in me certain over-analytical idiosyncrasies like this one. The daunting task of something that should be “easy” becomes a challenge you can’t mess up. The possibility that I might be known as “four wheels” to those in the below five foot club became a threat to my very existence as an over-achieving and successful child...
...Class Committee. The representatives will serve as liaisons between their Houses and the committee, which is charged with organizing social events for this year’s seniors and maintaining the College community after graduation, according to Alexandra Monti, the senior class coordinator at the Harvard Alumni Association. House masters and House committee leaders cited House pride and communicative ability when asked about many of the representatives’ qualifications. “She’s a House patriot,” Kirkland House Master Tom C. Conley said of the House’s representative, Jennifer S. Love...
...possessing a keen business sense. Yet there was another side to him. Karns, who lived next door to the Rajarams for eight years, says he was a "very high-strung, very intense man, very tightly wound. I would hear things. Our bedrooms were right next to each other." (The master bedrooms of their respective houses are across a fence from each other.) "Through the years, there would be yelling. To my knowledge, that was all there was, but it was intense yelling...