BW article on Private Equity

The cover story this week in Bloomberg Businessweek is My Week at Private Equity Boot Camp. It presents a fairly benign view of private equity.

I'm just wondering what people in this forum either those PE or those aspiring to it think of the article. Is it realistic?

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