Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.

I recognize that a name like Rachel goes against my whole ordering a different dish from everyone else at the table rule, but sometimes you really want a steak, and that's exactly what you should get. I love the name we gave our daughter. It's not dorky, not too whimsical, and not too stuck-up. To us it sounded sweet, sporty, smart, and beautiful. It also works well with Sachs.

So came they, three hours after noon, to where was a clearing in the woodland, and a long narrow plain some furlong over lay before them,[…], and the wood rose on the other side high and thick, so that the said plain looked even as a wide green highway leading from somewhence to somewhither.

I am at present engaged in preparing a vest-pocket edition of the philosophical works of Schopenhauer in words of one syllable.