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...Master of Mood The Marc Jacobs show is about more than clothes. The designer reminds us that we shouldn't take fashion too seriously- 9/12/06
...learned Portfolio Theory and Black-Scholes option pricing models. And to be fair, most of what was taught worked most of the time. But then a kind of lethal hubris began to settle in. They began to believe that the right models and right formulas would allow them to master the markets. It all became play money in a great game. Had the Amaranth-kids ventured beyond this bubble, they might have seen that an infinite faith in reason was not only delusional, but in time, would also prove destructive. Markets are, at their core, exchanges between human beings...
...Keanes' various fates, although shape may be too strong a word. Through all of this they keep some attachment to their Catholic faith. If nothing else, it bears into the perplexing world two essential ideas, pity and compassion--essential for people making their way through times they will never master, even if they were more masterful types...
...Master of Mood The Marc Jacobs show is about more than clothes. The designer reminds us that we shouldn't take fashion too seriously- 9/12/06
...Democrats ruled Texas at the time, so much so that Republicans, the joke went, met in a phone booth. Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock was the king of the corner table, the master of legislative budget matters. One night Bullock went on a roach-shooting rampage in the Quorum Club basement. By the next night, everyone had holstered their sidearms and recovered from their hangovers. And so it went night after night - until 1980 when Richards's family confronted her with her alcoholism and she went into rehab. One year later, Bullock went off, as he put it, to "drunk school...