The new New Yorker (Dec. 12) "Talk of the Town" section contains
	a brief piece about birding in Central Park with Henry Paulsen
	 ~ ~ yes, that one, the former Treasury Sec'y, CEO of Goldman Sachs,
	and architect of the Sept. '08 bailout).

	The writer captures the feel of a walk with a knowledgeable birder
	under dreary conditions, throws in a few metaphors & similes drawn
	from bird sightings, captures the birders' tendency to fall into  
trading
	anecdotes about old bird sightings, . . . and leaves us wishing we
	could just finish off a walk by walking into a waiting limo.

	One does wonder, though,  about that reference to a calling whip- 
poor-will
	last week . . .?

	Leo Weigant
	

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