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Why did such smart people--and the principals in LTCM are smart, even if some of them have Nobel Prizes in economics--take such seemingly foolish risks?
While his movies are thought of as huge (they are certainly hugely expensive), Kubrick's crews were legendarily tiny--in many cases no more than 15 people--and the director himself would go around arranging the lights in the manner not of a deity but of an electrician or plumber.
The LAT story puts the size of its sample--968 people--and its margin of error--4 percent--in its seventh paragraph.
I hadn't thought about The New New Thing in those terms, since it seemed to me that even though Clark had spats with various people--and even though he looked at money people, in particular, as vermin--all of them, even the vermin, were his co-conspirators.
I simply don't want the American people--and the world--to enter a new millennium ruled by a man who was elected to the most powerful post on the planet simply because he had the most money.