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John Shaw sits in the very midst of the beating heart of New York City, on the busy trading floor of a midtown financial firm. President of Jefferies and Company, a Wall Street trading business, he's a prototypical New Yorker--fast-talking, smart, quick on his feet, and, for now, worried about his city's future.
Like many, if not most, top executives in New York, Shaw lives elsewhere, in his case tony Westport, Connecticut. Now he notices that many of his top-drawer colleagues are giving up their second residences in Manhattan in favor of the suburbs, and that even some of his younger traders are pressing him--often at their wives' insistence--to work in offices ...