The couple, both financial advisers, recalled being nine or 10 years old when they attended their first baseball games.
Jane Bryant Quinn, one of Mrs. Bryant's daughters and the author, columnist and financial adviser, recalled speaking with her mother on the phone around this time.
Paul Wachter, a close friend and financial adviser, recalled that when the two went abroad on business trips Schwarzenegger often had an appointment to see the leader of whatever country they were visiting.
To help steer the ship of state, Mr Harper hired a seasoned first mate in Kevin Lynch, a senior financial official recalled from a post at the IMF to head the civil service.
"We thought we would hear they were cutting financial aid," recalled Erty Seidel, a senior on the wooded campus, which is filled with wildlife and sprawls across 1,200 acres in Land Lakeskes.
Warren Buffett, her financial mentor, recalls walking into her office to find a sheet of paper on her desk that read "assets on the left, liabilities on the right".
It was an inspiring homage to the written word — whether one creates shrewd private investigators, dissects financial crises, recalls flying to the moon or merely plucks revealing morsels from the commonplace of parents and children hanging at a sandwich shop.
It was not the first time she had dealt with such financial struggles – recalling her toughest year in 2005 when she could not even afford the fuel to race.
Having so recently acquired MIN, Mirror Group was not in a position to bid - but Candover, recalling its financial return on MIN in 1994, was.
"We were not as advanced as they were," VNU's chief financial officer, Frans Cremers, recalled.
