James D. Wolfensohn, who escaped a financially pinched Australian childhood to become a top Wall Street deal-maker and a two-term president of the World Bank, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.
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James D. Wolfensohn, who escaped a financially pinched Australian childhood to become a top Wall Street deal-maker and a two-term president of the World Bank, died Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.