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Sleep is Irrelevant to the Global Elite

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A typical day for an important Davos person starts with a 7:30 a.m. breakfast meeting, continues through various meetings and panel discussions all day, then a couple of cocktail receptions, then a working dinner, then two or three corporate "nightcaps" and then-for the truly committed — a 3 a.m. visit to a piano bar. Then up again for another 7:30 breakfast. Seriously, there are people who keep to this schedule, and do not keel over dead. And they rule our world.

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