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...diversity. “We went every year.” “My parents took me to a lot of classical concerts too, and we went to all the Harvard museums, especially the Peabody Museum,” adds Jasienski.The community within the houses is a valuable asset as well.“I don’t know what I would have been like if I didn’t live at Harvard,” says Jasienski. “It made me much more open to a different scope of people...
...days, global investors have lurched from the happy hope that virtually every asset could continue going up at once, to the wrenching fear that inflation is about to surge. Markets have a memory, and certainly the trauma that inflation created for investors in the 1970s is still close to the surface. Is the surging price of gold and oil telling us that we are headed back to those days? Will inflation once again ravage the markets? One must always remain vigilant. Markets, indeed entire economies, can turn in what appears to be an instant. Stuff happens. But in my view...
...month campaigning to become a Labour councillor in his London borough. Owen found "a good deal of hostility to Blair among middle-class, liberal-leaning Labour supporters, much of it wrapped up with Iraq," he says. And he adds, ruefully, that "Blair is no longer the unfailing and extraordinary asset he was when he burst onto the scene 12 years ago." But Iraq was a mess a year ago - and Blair still won re-election. So why do things feel so different now? One reason is the start of a Tory revival under Cameron, which means that Blair...
...next level, signing Airness as the official uniform supplier for several French pro clubs and half a dozen national squads in Africa. Next season London club Fulham will join that stable, with a bonus for Airness: club owner Mohammed al Fayed will place Airness products in another asset of his--Harrods...
Several days before Katrina struck, John Walker shutdown production and evacuated crews from the oil and gas fields that his company operates in the Mississippi Delta. The CEO of EnerVest, a Houston energy-asset-management firm, was luckier than most. Katrina spared four of his fields, though the damage to a fifth was ugly. The storm blew a barge five miles down the bayou from its moorings in marshy Garden Island Bay. Nearly every piece of oil equipment was destroyed, and Walker estimates it will take several months to get that field running at full capacity. "When there...