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Warren Buffett the investor is widely known: his $5 billion bet on the battered Goldman Sachs on Sept. 23 surely came as no surprise to fans of his coolheaded strategy of buying good firms on the cheap. Buffett the person, on the other hand, is quite a surprise--an emotionally needy husband and absentee father who avoids anyone he fears might criticize him. Even people who don't care a whit about business will be intrigued by this portrait of a boy who endured a verbally abusive mother and grew into a man desperately dependent on a series of women...
...from the New York Fed's imposing Manhattan headquarters on Liberty Street, often serves as the bridge between the other two back in Washington. "There isn't anything spoken in anger, but certainly these are men with ideas and can be forceful in how they express them," says one person familiar with their calls. "If there's a sense that someone was miffed or something, then there's a private call right afterward, and then the next call is fine...
...Gwyneth Paltrow? I think that perhaps you're thinking of Gwyneth as a macrobiotic vegan who is too thin for her own good. Gwyneth is a delightful person to hang around with. She also spent time in high school in Spain and speaks with a much more beautiful accent than...
...United States is not just “the President of the people who agree with me.” And if you’re not one of those people off the bat, then, as Bill Clinton put it, “you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.”—Staff writer Nicholas K. Tabor can be reached at ntabor@fas.harvard.edu...
...between an upright and inverted point-of-view. The film continues on in this way with bicycles, garbage trucks, and, at one point, a van of piano movers. “An almost perfect example of Emerson’s principle that a few mechanical changes can make a person think,” Sitney said afterward. “What we see here is a portrait of street life by someone who perceives it with great intensity.” A film Sitney showed by Stan Brakhage also uses upside-down shots along with shifting exposures and motion, while...