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...speed and the pacing." Soon enough, though, he designed a lucrative $100 million trade - then the largest of its kind Goldman had ever handled - for a Muslim client to comply with the religion's rules against receiving interest payments. In 1984, Goldman partner and J. Aron chief Mark Winkelman put Blankfein in charge of a group of foreign-exchange salesmen and later in charge of all foreign-exchange business. Rubin, then on the firm's management committee and responsible for both risk arbitrage and J. Aron, had advised Winkelman against it. According to Charles Ellis' 2008 book about Goldman...
...wake of Winkelman's departure from the firm after he'd been passed over for the top job at Goldman in favor of Jon Corzine (now governor of New Jersey), Blankfein was selected to run J. Aron. His appetite for risk quickly surfaced. In 1995 he chided his fellow partners for being too risk-averse and promptly left a conference room where they were meeting to place a multimillion-dollar bet with the firm's money that the dollar would rise against the yen. Blankfein's bet - one of his favorites - paid off, and he impressed his partners...
Today's camp curricula seem tailored to another aspect of modern childhood: short attention spans. Camper Lyons is still hoping for a film career, but, according to his mother Leslye Winkelman Lyons, he's interested in "10 other things as well," so this summer he plans to move on from stunt work and attend another of Pali Overnight Adventures' programs, this one in culinary arts, run by a former chef to the Saudi royal family. As he did last summer, Lyons will spend his mornings receiving special instruction and his afternoons participating in his choice of such activities as paintball...
Swiss violinist Helena Winkelman with guest pianist Anton Kernjak. The performance, sponsored by the Pro Musicis Foundation, includes pieces by Schubert, Lutoslawski, Kurtag, and Beethoven. Saturday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. Tickets $15 for students. Pickman Concert Hall at Longy School of Music, 27 Garden...
...forgot about it in the first class, but the second group reminded me," Winkelman said...