Both were hedge funds with an aptitude for inept names (Amaranth means "undying flower").
When Hillary Clinton was named secretary of State, Paterson looked inept naming a replacement, as he sent conflicting signals about Caroline Kennedy and finally named little-known upstate Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand.
$23. Nine years ago Julian Barnes wrote a diverting novel called "Talking It Over," which turned the classic Truffaut movie "Jules and Jim" into a chatty romantic comedy about a love triangle among three English yuppies: a pretty art restorer named Gillian; her first husband, a stuffy, socially inept banker named Stuart; and his best friend, an insufferable know-it-all dilettante named Oliver.
Miss Minoes is a cat who turns into a human and befriends an inept journalist named Tibbe.
Nurtured by the promoter Tex Rickard, Dempsey won the heavyweight title in 1919 by flattening an inept giant named Jess Willard.
He regularly devised illusions for such BBC TV magicians as David Nixon and Paul Daniels and occasionally appeared on their respective shows as an inept assistant named Alistair.
Timothy Hallinan's affable antihero, an accomplished thief but inept sleuth named Junior Bender, makes a terrific first impression in CRASHED (Soho Crime, $25), swinging from a chandelier to escape the jaws of four vicious guard dogs.
It introduces us to jittery Omar (played by Riz Ahmed), dozy Faisal (Adeel Akhtar), foursquare Waj (Kayvan Novak) and belligerent Barry Nigel Lindsayy), while an inept rapper named Hassan Arsher Alii) jogs on the sidelines, awaiting his big chance.
She is befriended by an inept newspaper reporter named Tibbe (Theo Maassen), who with the tips she brings him from the cat gossip chain is suddenly hitting the front page regularly.
In the movie's best scene, Trixie winds up with Dex on Red's boat, along with Red's drunken, pill-popping girlfriend, a pathetically inept pop-country singer named Dawn Sloane (Lesley Ann Warren).
