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Henry Rosovsky, the former dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is famous for saying that Harvard College students are here for only four years, the Faculty for a lifetime and the University forever. But Harvard's key asset in maintaining its unparalleled reputation and its overflowing prestige seems to me to lie not so much in the permanence of the institution--because, like everything, the institution will change and evolve over time--but rather in how effectively the institution persuades us of its own rightness and legitimacy...
...Harvard has made an effort wherever possibleto make something like this possible," she said."It's a real asset for the community and theneighborhood to know that we'll always have this[building...
...happen more often. Even the Globe runs a couple of corrections every day. We put in more checkpoints than professional papers, because we have to." But too many small errors are adding up to big doubts about the credibility of the newspaper. And credibility is the biggest asset a newspaper can have. If a little more rigor, and perhaps even more checkpoints in editorial and reporting policies, will reassure readers about the accuracy, integrity and sound judgement of what they read every morning, it will be a step well worth taking...
...there now. Inflation is asleep. You can almost hear it snore. There's just no reason for Greenspan to push rates higher. He knows it, and that's why he has made only one rate move in two years--remarkable inaction for a man who worries famously about "asset inflation" leading to a bubble economy. Yes, Greenspan may bump rates up just to prove he can do more than talk. But any such move would be isolated--like the one a year ago--not a series, which is what the stock market can't stand...
...Sanford's vision of particle finance, every financial asset, from the mortgage you hold on your house to the items you've charged on your credit card, will become part of a giant, interconnected financial universe. And each piece of your superportfolio, called a wealth account, will be understood not simply as a "stock" or a "bond" but as an instrument designed to match your financial needs with the available options. In the same way a FORTUNE 500 treasurer may use derivatives to balance his or her need for pesos and yen, wealth accounts will precisely balance your demand...