America was built on immigrants. It is still building on immigrants. So the immigrant story is our story – Mohsin Hamid, British-Pakistani novelist. ‘Easy’ was one of a dozen vocabulary words pasted on the whiteboard, and someone in the back of the Brooklyn classroom in the Butler Library offered it
BLACKROCK chief executive Larry Fink was searching for years for the right private markets partner to make his $10 trillion money manager a formidable player in alternative investments as it is in traditional asset management. His overtures to private equity, private credit and hedge funds rarely got beyond the first
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. – Herman Melville (1819-1891) an American novelist. Among his best-known works is Moby-Dick (1851). A month ago, the district judge for our area of Lower Manhattan, New York was retiring and discreetly encouraged a Goldman
Book title: When Breath Becomes AirISBN: 978-1-9848-0182-1Author: Paul KalanithiPublisher: Random House LLC New York When Dr Paul Kalanithi sent his best friend an email in May 2013 revealing that he had terminal cancer, he wrote: “The good news is that I’ve already outlived two Brontës, Keats, and Stephen Crane. The
‘Turn your wounds into wisdom.’ – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host It’s the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) results season; time to cheer the teenage achievers (especially the overachievers) and send them off to campus adventures and incipient adulthood. This time, though, I want to talk about the other group
‘We generally don’t get more than a general warning.’ – Capt Chesley Sullenberger, American retired commercial pilot. Time was, I was a very anxious flier. Not a take-the-bus-across-the-continent-rather-than-fly type, but certainly one who pretty much dreaded getting on an airplane. It was an acquired anxiety, an apprehension that took up
This team simply never gives in. Fighting until the final whistle is in our blood – Carlo Ancelotti, Real Madrid coach. There was nothing. There was no noise. The stadium Santiago Bernabéu stood silent, subdued, waiting for the bell to toll. There was no spark. Real Madrid had long since
Keep your face always toward the sunshine — and shadows will fall behind you – Walt Whitman (1819-1892), American poet. Three years ago, in the middle of the night, my wife, kids and I drove from Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Dublin to catch an early morning flight to Munich, Germany.
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire – William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, dramatist and writer. A friend made a thoughtful Thanksgiving suggestion in an email last week. He encouraged us to reach out to “someone whose creative work means a lot
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live – Dr Jillian, hepatologist at Columbia Irving Medical Centre, New York, US. When Jillian was pregnant and working in the intensive care unit (ICU), she disguised her growing abdomen with the largest fleece
