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CHARLES BARKLEY + Urkel + wine coolers + bear claws = DUI arrest. Still not a role model...
...were once structured in a way that made employees think long and hard about risk. They were partnerships, and partners couldn't cash in until they'd been on the job for decades. This amounted to an implicit clawback system, with the other partners doing the clawing. The partnership model began to break down in 1970, when upstart Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette sold shares to the public. Merrill Lynch followed a year later, and in 1999 Goldman Sachs was the last big firm to go public. Perhaps that was all a mistake. "It's a radically regressive idea, but I honestly...
...Aside from a few paintings by the transatlantic practitioners of Neo-Romanticism, a gentler version of Surrealism, this is a show about stuff. One of the first things you see is a 6-ft.-long (2 m) wooden model of the Normandie, that floating showcase for Art Deco and French luxury that was once the classiest way to go between the two cities. Nearby are modernistic silver serving pieces and other shipboard relics. A striking 1934 photomontage advertising the Normandie shows it sailing through Times Square past the Art Deco Paramount Building. Art Deco - that decorative fusion of Art Nouveau...
...beginning and middle, but also an end. One of the last things you see is a 1932 replica of a never-built luxury liner by Norman Bel Geddes, who - along with the likes of Gilbert Rohde and Donald Deskey - formed a rising group of distinctively American designers. Bel Geddes' model is the same size as the Normandie at the show's entrance, but sleeker and more futuristic - a metaphor for the passing of cultural leadership to New York...
...Nadal's manager, Carlos Costa of the management company IMG, says the young champ is ready to grow up. The role model, again, is Federer, who has positioned himself as an elder statesman of the tour and whose exquisite touch on the court and advertiser-friendly image as a trilingual Swiss gentleman brought in an estimated $35 million in prize money and endorsements in 2008. (Nadal's camp won't discuss finances, but tennis writers estimate Nadal's earnings fall considerably short of that.) "When you see Nadal and Federer it's a different type of person," says Costa. [Federer...