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...Dung's notoriety is new. For most of his 41 years, he has lived as a shadow - the English translation of the book title (and a derogatory Vietnamese term for homosexuals). "We are considered ill or deviant," he says...
...neutral, unbiased assessment of the “aptitude” of college applicants. The next 80 years, however, would prove the SAT to be anything but neutral. A good SAT score has always added sparkle to the resumes of the most affluent college applicants, while casting a shadow onto those from less privileged backgrounds. The SAT at times seems almost directly proportional to the amount of money one’s parents make. Among test-takers in 2008, for instance, those whose family incomes were above $200,000 averaged 570 in SAT math, while students with family incomes below...
...this, however, will not be enough to blow out the deal, because the consequences of a collapse in the so-called shadow banking system would be much worse. Over the last 20 years Wall Street built what amounted to a parallel finance system that was specifically designed to avoid the banking safeguards implemented after the crash of 1929, which limited how much an institution could be leveraged in exchange for stability. The shadow system grew nearly to the size of the real banking system, and its demise now threatens both. "As much as I don't want to be here...
...problems of the shadow banking system...
...breasted uniform when I showed up that night for the dinner shift. After a brief tour of the kitchen, he introduced me to the other cooks in the kitchen. There was one person on each station—antipasti, primi, secondi, and dolci—and I was to shadow the chef’s girlfriend Alessandra on sweets. Working 14 hours a day, six days a week, in a kitchen that spoke exclusively Italian, I started to question why I ever thought this apprenticeship had been a good idea. And when Alessandra switched to reception on the third night...