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...Blankfein was on partner track at Donovan, but then he had what he calls a pre-midlife crisis and decided to make the switch, if he could, to investment banking. He applied for banking jobs at Dean Witter, Morgan Stanley and Goldman. He did not make the cut in Goldman's famously exhaustive recruitment process (or at the other two firms either). "It wasn't a nutty decision. I was a lawyer," he says. "I didn't have a finance background." Instead, in 1982 he landed a job as a gold salesman for J. Aron & Co., an obscure commodities firm...
...when I walk into a bookstore, all I want is to get that warm and fuzzy feeling inside. Here’s to those covers that are just nice eye candy. Yummy! DEWEY: THE SMALL-TOWN LIBRARY CAT WHO TOUCHED THE WORLD by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter Beautiful, brown, doleful eyes look out from a tawny furry face and just seem to soothingly purr, “Everything’s going to be alright now that Dewey, the small-town library cat, is here.” Sitting on a book in front of shelves of other books...
When the planes struck the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, Rick Rescorla embodied that spirit of survival. The head of security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter at the World Trade Center, Rescorla believed that regular people were capable of great achievements, with a bit of leadership. He got Morgan Stanley employees to take responsibility for their survival - which happened almost nowhere else that day in the Trade Center. (See aerial photos of the World Trade Center's destruction...
...First of all, Gardner never touched a Rubik’s Cube in rise to the top floors of the Dean Witter brokerage firm, yet Smith’s character is found repeatedly whipping through that Technicolor obstacle course of cognition. Why? Well, plot development—Gardner needs to have his ‘prodigy’ moment, of course—and because Will Smith likes Rubik’s Cubes. Furthermore, Gardner’s son—five in the film—was only a toddler when he was chasing the office job:no existential...
While sharing a cab with one of the heads of Dean Witter, Gardner solves the biggest puzzle of the 80s—the Rubik’s cube—and scores the internship. But with no steady income, he and his son go from a shabby apartment to a shabbier hotel to an all-out homeless shelter, and times become really, well, unhappy. Not to worry, though. There’s no question as to how this one ends...