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“There is proverbially a mystery among most men of new wealth, how they made their first ten thousand; it is the qualities they showed then, before they became bullies, when every man was someone to be placated, when only hope sustained them and they could count on nothing from the world but what could be charmed from it, that make them, if they survive their triumph, successful with women.”

CharismaCourtshipNouveau RicheChutzpah
Book:Brideshead Revisited
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“...some student asked if he [Larry Summers] didn’t have essentially the same relationship with Bob Rubin. Wasn’t Summer’s opposition to capital controls just a sop to Wall Street banks, which wanted to recoup their risky investments regardless of how doing so affected the country in which they had invested? “Summers just lost it,” said one audience member, a business school student. “he looked at the person and said, “you don’t know what you’re talking about and how dare you ask this question of the president of Harvard?”

ArgumentArroganceHypocrisyNeoliberalismDeregulationCrony CapitalismEconomistsChutzpahClinton AdministrationRevolving DoorClinton Patronage MachineHarvard PresidentsLarry SummersParrhesiaUs Treasury Department
Book:Harvard Rules: Lawrence Summers and the Battle for the World's Most Powerful University – Sex, Ambition, and Elite Power at America's Institution
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