## JAMES PATTERSON

University, located a few blocks away. There, at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, he studies the mathematical physiology of the heart. But he never graduates from any college or university.

By 1973, Epstein is teaching at the Dalton School, a prestigious private school on the Upper East Side. Like Tavern on the Green, Grand Central Terminal, and the Century Association, Dalton is a New York institution-an elite K-12 rocket ship built for the children of New York's ruling classes.

It's not at all clear how Epstein, who has no college degree, ends up there.

And yet here he is, barely out of his teens and already a teacher of math and physics. "Go forth unafraid" is the Dalton School's credo.

It's a philosophy Epstein has adopted. For him, Dalton's an excellent launching pad.

It's nothing like Lafayette High School. The kids he's teach- ing are rich-very rich. Their parents are extremely well con- nected. And despite Epstein's outer-borough accent, he's careful in his presentation. At any given moment, he's one parent-teacher conference away from a whole new world of possibilities.

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Because Dalton has an excellent student-to-teacher ratio, the parents get to know Epstein quite well. Before long, a Wall Street macher named Alan "Ace" Greenberg has taken a special shine to the young man who's been tutoring his son Ted.

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Like Epstein, Ace Greenberg came from a humble background. The son of an Oklahoma City shopkeeper, he won a football scholarship to the University of Oklahoma, transferred to the

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