I just want to make it clear that, before anyone gets the wrong impression, though I live among the 1%ers, not that I wouldn't like to be one of them, I am not. When something is everywhere, like wealth, you do tend to notice it less, but like someone living in Hawaii, every so often you do just take stock of it all and say "wow", and count yourself lucky even if you don't happen to live on the beach. To illustrate the wow factor and absurdity of it all, here's a quick quiz. Try to figure out what the following people have in common:
Joel Davis - Magazine publisher
Laszlo Birinyi - Market research guru
Ian Bremmer - Distinguished professor at Columbia
Joseph A. Califano, Jr. - Former US Sec of Health, Education & Welfare
Frank Deford - Famous sportswriter
Lawrence K. Grossman - Former president of NBC News and PBS
Erica Jong - Noted erotic author of Fear of Flying
Jeffrey B. Kindle - Former CEO of Pfizer
David Komansky - Chairman emeritus of Merrill Lynch & Co, Inc.
Venetia Kontogouris - Managing director of Trident Capital
Evelyn Kossak - President of Jolen cosmetics
Sidney Kramer - Noted lawyer
Harold Levine - Founded ad agency with newsman Chet Huntley
Arthur Levitt - Former head of SEC
David McKinney - Former president of Metropolitan Museum of Art
William S. McNee - Cloud computing guru
Michael Miller - Former editor-in-chief of PC Magazine
David Pogue - NY Times technology columnist
Ann Sheffer - Daughter of noted philanthropist
John Sias - Former president of the San Francisco Chronicle and president of NBC Network Group
Joel Smilow - Former CEO of Playtex
Sybil Steinberg - Publishers Weekly critic and editor
Susan Tane - Noted philanthropist
Michael Wilens - Chief investment officer and head of asset management for Fidelity Investments
Irving Wladawsky-Berger - Former co-chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee
Joanne Woodward - Famous actress and wife of Paul Newman
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It's the Advisory Council for our library. I'm not kidding.
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- Jeff |
