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This lack of contrition has led armchair psychologists, and not a few former colleagues, to label Blagojevich a megalomaniac, a textbook narcissist, a poster boy for America's coarse and craven political culture. Blagojevich calls himself a victim - with one caveat. "If I'm lying to you," he says, "then I'm a sociopath...
...Textbook magnate N. Gregory Mankiw’s stock portfolio dipped. Economics department chair and hedge fund adviser John Y. Campbell got out too early. Even conservative investor Claudia Goldin suffered a drop in her retirement fund...
...Mankiw practices what he preaches in his textbook. “I don’t think anyone should put all their money in a company they work for, or in the country they happen to live in,” he says. He is invested not only in the U.S. but also in Europe, Asia, and emerging markets...
...turned out that the student wasn’t even in his class. It was just someone using his textbook at UC Berkeley who decided
...Months after my return to the States, I encountered my first Varma painting while flipping through my high-school art-history textbook. (My class never got to the section on Indian art, which wasn’t covered on the AP Exam.) I would come to blame artists like Varma for the exaggerated deference I’d witnessed firsthand in India. In a country with such a rich artistic tradition, I found myself asking: What compelled a Keralite to adopt a European vocabulary to produce something meaningful and aesthetically pleasing...