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and Bulletproof Windows: How Occupy Wall Street Is Scaring the
Heck out of the 1%  Are the sustained protests in Manhattan's
Financial District and around the country getting to the wealthy
bankers who are being targeted?  A giant bunch of red balloons
bob outside the glass windows of the tower at 200 West
Street—the headquarters of mega-investment bank Goldman Sachs.
Tied to each balloon is a letter, printed out from the
site OccupyTheBoardroom.org, being delivered to Goldman in
rather spectacular fashion by the activists below, who are
holding onto the balloons by a few balls of twine.  A small
group of people, including a couple of police officers, huddle
nearby. It's clear they don't like what's going on, but they
can't seem to come up with a legal reason to stop it. The
protesters tie more letters to more balloons and send them
zipping up the string to join the others at the top, and a
blonde woman mutters something like, “They want to occup