Michael m grynbaum biography of mahatma

Thesis Title: A Joke by Any Other Name: Hoax as a Social Protest (Three Case Studies)

What Now: National Correspondent, The New York Times

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Three years of History & Literature trained me to explain the nuances of postmodern theory and American culture.

Naturally, my first job out of college required me to write about the stock market.

I attended exactly one economics class at Harvard (a shopping period mishap), not quite adequate preparation for covering the financial world in the fall of 2007.

Michael m grynbaum biography of mahatma

As a new cubicle-mate patiently explained the difference between a stock and a bond, I wondered how those hours of analyzing Eliot and Benjamin might apply.

As it turned out: quite well! When an editor asked me to summarize the impenetrable remarks of the Federal Reserve chairman, I flashed back to close reading exams:The dense jargon of Wall Street seemed manageable after wrestling with theory in