When Youssif walked into the new home, he glanced at the plush wall-to-wall carpet and ordered everyone to take their shoes off.

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Once upon a time, when Wall Street was rolling out the hiring carpet, major brokerage firms offered Employee Forgivable Loans to top producers and had trainee programs for wannabes.

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Uma Thurman walked the red carpet as photographers from Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post snapped photos.

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She saw paper stars hanging from the ceiling, and cards and posters on the wall, and a homey bedspread upon the mattress, but faeries had come to carpet the room with grass, to pave the walls with stone and set them with jewels, and to blow a cover of clouds to hide the horrible suspended ceiling.

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The wall covering creates a shimmery backdrop for a charcoal linen-velvet headboard, a painterly silk carpet, silver-leafed night stands and rosy fabrics.

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