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Story 1 is about the excesses of the leveraged buyout era--exemplified by the RJR Nabisco merger--and the comeuppance of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which saddled the merged firm with unbearable debt.
Bancroft is so spectacularly abrasive that it's scandalous that she doesn't get the incendiary comeuppance of Dickens' novel--that objective-correlative finale in which the seething, dried-out harridan spontaneously combusts.
Or a comeuppance may lead to a bringdown .
There are some smart people--most notably Harvard's Jeffrey Sachs--who believe that, but my view is that Asian economies had gone seriously off the rails well before last summer, and that some kind of unpleasant comeuppance was inevitable.
But he stretched too far, in his price tag and his claims, and now Kloss' Cambridge has delivered his comeuppance.