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From Michael Milken to Mary Meeker, me-first Wall Street has been billboarded for two decades. Even before that it was an open secret. The mystery is that so many are shocked--shocked!--to learn that bankers take kickbacks for allocating shares of a hot IPO, or that analysts tout stocks not for their potential but because cheery opinions help reel in underwriting fees and a monster year-end bonus...
...Bush was visiting the Everglades to name a new National Park Service director, Fran Mainella, the longtime head of Florida?s parks, and to tout his commitment to protecting what he called "a slice of heaven." He spoke to about 100 park employees, giving details of his 2002 budget, which includes $219 million for Everglades restoration - $58 million more than this year, according to the White House...
...Americans love medicine. Doctors are quick to point out that patients themselves often demand allergy drugs by name. Americans are targets of an unprecedented barrage of expensive and ubiquitous advertising campaigns by drug companies, who tout their products to a miserably sniffling populace as the pharmaceutical road to freedom - their ads feature former allergy sufferers laughingly windsurfing their way across a telegenic field of wheat. Heaven knows that image is certainly tough to resist...
...when Tadashi Ono became the executive chef at the renowned La Caravelle, the owners omitted any mention in the menu of ingredients like yuzu, a tart citrus fruit, and shiso, a mint-like herb, because the exotic terms intimidated diners. Today, at Ono's own restaurant, Sono, waiters proudly tout the yuzu cosmopolitan and shiso margarita...
...become an apprentice hairdresser. Four years later, filmmaker Philippe Labro discovered the young man in a Paris nightclub teaching people to dance to James Brown records on the juke box. Labro was so struck with his presence that he offered Luchini his first film role in "Tout Peut Arriver" (1970). Luchini threw himself into acting with a passion, studying with such theatrical legends as Jean-Laurent Cochet and Michel Bouquet and devouring the classics. "I couldn't go to school," he says, "so like all self-taught people, I immersed myself in the works of two or three great writers...