Jon Corzine, the Co-Ceo of Goldman Sachs, is an island of calm on Wednesday evening, June 10. You'd never know that the professorial banker is attempting to cut the deal of his career and the most important—and perhaps one of the most complex—in the history of Goldman Sachs. The deal, of course, is the initial public offering of Goldman Sachs itself, and by the time you read this, the firm's 190 partners will have decided whether to do the deed and end the 129-year era of Goldman as a private partnership.
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