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...president, Sarkozy had secured a reputation as a man with a quick and nasty temper, sharp tongue, and obsession with coming out on top in verbal slap fights - particularly ones played out in public. Presidential aides regularly say that privately Sarkozy "has no time for diplomats, whom he considers wl...
...action is attracting a host of new players. Investment banks, which retrenched after the tech bust, are ratcheting back up, as are money managers like financial-services firm Amvescap, which last week acquired WL Ross & Co., a buyout firm run by turnaround specialist Wilbur Ross. Even hedge funds--whose trader mentality is antithetical to buying and holding--are taking pages out of the buyout playbook. Hedge-fund operator Eddie Lampert not only bought and merged Sears and Kmart but also installed himself as chairman...
...WL: I don't believe in coincidences. I really think it's all a clue...I sort of believe that I'm meant to do this. But if I could be anything now, I think I'd be a rock singer. A lot of comics want to be rock signers...
...WL: "Can I have a job?" That's what you want...
...WL: I think it's really hard to know what you want to do, especially at Harvard. There must be a lot of pressure to know what you're going to do when you're leaving. You have to plan; I guess that's what they say. My parents were always like, "We don't care what you do, as long as it makes you money." If somebody is like secretly interested in this--in stand-up, or in any art--I think everybody has to explore their alternative side. I had a day job, and then I did this...