" The office of a Wall Street bond dealer, unlike the warrens of futures traders, had "fancy furniture.

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The book is filled with telling anecdotes: the Cu Chi Tunnel soldiers who look at an overweight Western woman, unable to fit through the dug-out warrens, calculating the wealth of someone so fat.

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