HOUSE OVERSIGHT 025876 -The following morning, did Ehud Barack come over for breakfast? Did he have an omelet? Did he defend both Putin and Obama? -Was this followed by a senior White House official, whose name you don't want mentioned? -Did you then meet with Elisa New to discuss supporting a poetry series and other sources of funding? Did you forcefully critique her proposed budget? -After meeting with New, did you meet with the following: Hardeep Purie, Kairat Kelimbetov, Nathan Myhrvold, Martin Nowak, Richard Axel, Ron Baron, Josh Harris? Have you funded Nowak's program at Harvard with $30 million? -did Michael join a lunch at your home with Bill Richardson? -do you believe powerful people seek your advice because you're not affiliated with any institution, so you have no ulterior motives when giving them advice? -is your Paris home a 10,000 sq ft apartment on Avenue Foch? Does it have a stuffed baby elephant in its living room? Is it meant as a reminder that elephants have 23 copies of tumor suppressor genes? -Is the only book on your bedside table Lolita? Are you a fan of Nabokov? -Did you tell Michael that he should make a particular $100k investment in early September? What was it? -Were you born on 1953 in Coney Island? Was your father a Parks dept employee? Was your mother a housewife? -were you the captain of the math team at Lafayette High School? -did you study at Cooper Union for two years before beginning classes at NYU's Courant classes? After this, did you teach math at Dalton? Was this your first exposure to wealthy people? Did this teach you the rich had just as many problems as the working class, only theirs were caused by too much money rather than too little? -Did Punch Sulzberger try to convince you to join the NYT from Dalton? Did you once drive with Sulzberger to his country estate in a wood paneled station wagon, while he talked on a phone to his chaffeur? -did you meet Ace Greenberg through his children at Dalton? -D