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Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn (pictured), who is testifying in front of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission June 30, has a short attention span and dyslexia, which means he "has trouble spelling and following character-driven plots," according to the Journal.
However, what skills he lacks he makes up for in other departments. Those who know him say he has "a gift with numbers," "a heightened ability to absorb verbal communication," and also, apparently, a strong B.S. detector.
Mr. Cohn also is well-known for being direct, even by Wall Street standards. During the credit crisis, he spotted ex-Goldman executives John Thain and Peter Kraus having dinner at San Pietro restaurant in New York. Mr. Thain now is chief executive of CIT Group Inc., while Mr. Kraus leads AllianceBernstein Holding LP.
"They are a pair of Goldman retreads," Mr. Cohn remarked to his dinner companion, according to people familiar with the conversation.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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