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Former colleagues and friends also paint a picture of Rajaram as a dedicated family man, a gentle-hearted, friendly and charismatic person unafraid to speak his mind. He was extremely bright, they say, scoring virtually perfect scores on the GMAT and 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder-Suicide in California: A Tragedy of the Financial Crisis? | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

Greg Robinson, who mentored Rajaram at PricewaterhouseCoopers, brought him in as a partner at Azur Partners LLC, in September 2003. Yet he viewed Rajaram as "an emotionally unstable person for as long as I've known him. He's always been a bit flamboyant, reckless." Their partnership didn't last a year. He says Rajaram was fired in June 2004 because of erratic behavior, including joining conference calls while inebriated and missing client meetings. Despite this, Robinson, CEO of Outpost Entertainment Inc., says he remained friends with Rajaram, though the two hadn't spoken since 2005. "He could have called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder-Suicide in California: A Tragedy of the Financial Crisis? | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...write that Clinton, "simply has more God-given talent than any politician we've ever seen." You're not the first to note something like that, but you do offer some psychological reasons why.Think about the possibility of being both the smartest and the most empathic person in the room. These are traits that are completely independent of each other. That's like being both the smartest person in a room as well as the tallest. What are the odds of that? With Clinton, you have someone who is bright, energetic, empathic, extroverted, and curious. It's like a quintuple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Bill Clinton On the Couch | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...empathic. I'm used to making connections with people. That might be one way in which a biography by a psychologist might be a little different, because we don't feel that we're giving away the store if we allow ourselves to connect to a person we're trying to understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Bill Clinton On the Couch | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

...boredom punctuated by brief flashes of drama. Late in the debate, Obama was killing time with a stern patch of bravado: "We will kill Bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda," and so on. How dead would that guy be by now if American speeches could kill a person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Plays Ball Control in Second Debate | 10/8/2008 | See Source »

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