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...serious manner, and casual encounters seem to be all the rage. I even get it with strangers: In a taxi yesterday, I was sitting in the front seat as we stopped to pick up a crowd of people. The driver made sure that a young female took the seat next to me (read: on top of me) and asked “¿Buena chica, no?” nodding his head furiously. He tells me I should take her home with me and that she’s a very beautiful girl (and she was). Talk about awkward...
...either way, then got out of the taxi and went off with him. He said that they spent a passionate night together and that he was very lucky because this woman had a very, very nice house (electricity and running water) and a comfortable bed to sleep in. The next morning, he paid her 12,000CFA as a gesture of thanks. Did I mention that this man is married and has four children? And that said wife knows very well of these exploits...
...Looking back on what I’ve written, I hope that I do not come across as defending male chauvinism. It is certainly not my dream to find an attractive girl in a taxi, take her home, and pay her $24 the next morning. But in a world where tomorrow could mean jail time for your mere thoughts, spending a night with a beautiful woman is hard to criticize...
...interning at an asset management firm in New York, and by the end of the next month—once Bear Stearns had wound-down the funds as officially worthless—all of my colleagues, from the most senior money managers to the lowliest analysts, had sat through a number of crash courses in our conference rooms 40 floors over Midtown, covering the inner-workings of “mortgage securitization.” This process governs how a home buyer’s payments make it from Main Street to Wall Street, and what happens when the flow...
...intriguing. The high-heeled woman who took off work to watch the sun at 9 a.m. rushed back, and worked overtime. The little girl who jumped with glee as she faced the receding, glowing-red blob was hurried onto a school bus to sit behind a desk for the next six hours or so. People flowed back onto the escalators—letting themselves be moved instead of moving—to the next destination after destination, always looking forward and never around...