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Jun 13 2007 12:00am EDT

Bill Gross, Prose Stylist

Bill Gross, bond investor, stamp collector, philanthropist, and billionaire, can write pretty much whatever he wants. He can even refer to the chairman of the Federal Reserve as "Ben the Pelvis". But surely the upside of writing for the FT, as opposed to the Pimco newsletter, is that you get to call upon the services of professional editors. Shouldn't they cut such stuff out? And how on earth did they allow into print the assertion that "the wait is excruciating, and in some cases painful"?

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