george michael steinhart, the royalty street, all wanted to meet me. so i go on this world tour of street and i go to these meetings and these people are much smarter than my at solomon brothers and at the end of each meeting they say this is unbelievable. you money to invest on our behalf in russia? and i said, i don't know. the moment we're just doing this for myself but let me ask the bosses back at solomon brothers. so i go back to solomon brothers. i go to the head of the trading london. and i say, i've just been with mr. soros and he wants to have us manage his money in russia, what do you think? brilliant idea, bill, let's form a task force to study it. week later we have our first task force meeting. it'sk into this room and like a mid sized conference room and there's 45 people in the i've never seen before in my life. there was the vice chairman of the firm, senior managing directors, managing directors, directors, directors, senior vice presidents, vice me.idents, and as soon as the meeting started, i fight broke out as to which group inside solomon brothers was going to get the economic credit for the business. group that started fighting had the most per