Word: batra
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Frankly, we're due. And that brings me to another batch of three: The Crash of the Millennium by Ravi Batra, who, as they say, has called five out of the past two recessions; Beat the Millennium Crash by Jake Bernstein; and Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (Dutch tulip bulbs to junk bonds) by Edward Chancellor. The bubble theories in these books at the very least provide some counterweight to the sky's-the-limit authors...
...M.I.T.--Rivas, Gallagher, Batra; Harvard--None...
...Harvard honorees are Ritu Sonia Batra '93 of Los Angeles; Matthew B. Boyle '93 of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Alexander M. Johnston '93 of Amherst, Mass.; Sarah L. Levine '93 of Brookline, Mass.; Ayelet K. Margalioth '93 of Montreal, Canada; and Andre C. Namphy '93 of Palo Alto, Calif...
...Batra says that in California, which led the nation in number of applicants, the key to winning was friendliness and a sense of humor. "People with the cut-throat attitude didn't make it through," said the history of science concentrator...
There's no question the Reagan-Bush era has been great for high-income guys like me. But if there's anything to the Batra thesis, a Clinton win may come just in time -- not for any massive redistribution of wealth, but to tip the playing field ever so slightly away from the wealthy and back toward everyone else...