Word: lowenstein
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Such gains have earned Buffett, 64, a personal fortune worth some $12 billion in Berkshire stock and made him the second-richest man in America after his friend Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft. "In the annals of investing, Warren Buffett stands alone," observes Wall Street Journal columnist Roger Lowenstein, whose biography of Buffett will be published by Random House later this month. According to Lowenstein, an investor who had placed $10,000 with Buffett in 1956 would have holdings today worth about $95 million...
...Buffett, money has its own logic. He does not enjoy what it can buy. In fact, spending money interferes with its real purpose from the Buffett point of view--the sheer pleasure of accumulation. "He views money as basically a way of keeping score," says Lowenstein, "a way of measuring his success." While a boy, Buffett told a friend, "It's not that I want money. It's the fun of making money and watching it grow." As Lowenstein puts it, Buffett acquired while growing up "an overly reverent view of money's proper role, as if spending were...
Good father, impotent husband, unemployed football coach and tormented modern male, he is summoned to New York because his sister Savannah, a poet, has again attempted suicide. It develops, of course, that her psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein (played not entirely believably by the director), has a life as miserable as Tom's. Her husband (Jeroen Krabbe) is a cold, egomaniacal concert violinist, her son (played well by Streisand's real-life son Jason Gould) the victim of the Golden Boy syndrome, torn between the violin and a rough sport (in this case football...