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Opinion | Brian McGrory

I’ll take Tom, and hold the Mayo

By Brian McGrory

 |  Globe Columnist  

  February 10, 2012

I have learned about an energy/utility executive with strong Boston ties who makes even more than Tom May of NStar and is far less impressive. I’m sorry, but who in their right mind could ever have imagined this? His name is Mayo Shattuck III, and when someone eventually writes the authoritative book about the absurd income disparities that have come to dominate America in the early 2000s, his smiling face will almost certainly be on the cover.

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