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“I always wanted to travel, and I never got to travel with football,” Ehrlich explains. “This was basically a chance to go abroad, and get paid to do it.”
“To tell you the truth, man, [being a] lawyer isn’t something I wanted to do,” he added. “Nobody wants to be a lawyer—it’s hard work.”
I wanted to be somewhere else to see if I could survive somewhere else; to gain some perspective on Harvard and life. Being immersed in an institution full of incredible people, you can easily forget that you are also a smart, capable person who probably has a bright future ahead...
The bill the House passed in December closely tracks the Treasury proposals; Geithner's aides say they got at least 80% of what they wanted, including the stand-alone consumer agency, an easy-to-understand innovation for Americans who think mortgages and credit cards should be as safe as toasters...
But for critics who believed the Administration was reluctant to crack down on Wall Street, Volcker became the proof that wasn't in the pudding - the monetary version of the "most trusted name in news" who suddenly sounded like a Daily Kos blogger. If Obama really wanted to stop banks...