Posted on 11/09/03
Grasso goes from 9/11 hero to zero
Dick Grasso, a skinny bald guy with an annoying, high-pitched voice who had never proven himself in the trenches of Corporate America, was an unlikely Sept. 11 superstar. Yet there he was, a mere six days after the destruction of his neighbourhood in lower Manhattan, presiding over the reopening of the New York Stock Exchange. "We have served notice that the criminals have failed," the exchange boss said from the trading floor balcony. "Our economy is intact."
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