The head of Greenlight Capital has just been given the New York magazine treatment, which solidifies his rock-star status on Wall Street. David Einhorn should be careful, though, because fame is fleeting. This is a good time to pull out all the clichés, like the one about how the brightest stars, by the time they are visible to on earth, have already burned out in space. But at least he can boast solid performance numbers: a 25 percent average annual return over the 12 years Greenlight has been in business. He's also a decent bridge player who took up poker for fun--and won $660,000 at the 2006 World Series of Poker--the article notes. My take is that he's among a handful of managers who are pioneering a new, no-holds barred hedge fund style. It's a high stakes game. A wrong call could well get you indicted.  

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