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...profits are still growing, and long-term interest rates have begun to fall. Meanwhile, history suggests that the longer and steeper a market bust, the longer and more robust the recovery. And the 2000-02 decline was one for the ages: the S&P 500 fell 49%, vs. the bear-market median decline...
...friendship with teammate Satchel Paige. O'Neil later became a Chicago Cubs scout--he signed Hall of Famers like Lou Brock--then, in 1962, a barrier-breaking coach. But he never forgot his sporting roots, and wrote,"The Lord has kept me on this earth to bear witness to the days and glories and men (and women) of the Negro leagues...
...much as these stories enrich one another, they also add weight, and occasionally the accumulation becomes more than the novel can bear. Horn writes in slyly beautiful prose—a forest at sunset can suddenly become “a drawstring bag…tightening the early evening sky with wrinkles of naked branches”—but the movements between storylines often feel heavy and imposed. But when Ben comes home from the museum and looks at the Chagall painting (a study of a man floating over a city), we read that Ben himself feels...
...RUS’s 2004 report contains other amusing highlights—my favorite is a description of the psychic oppression women must bear when attending class and living in lecture halls and dorms named after men — but none of them quite seems, how shall we say, reasonable...
...change of policy as “short on facts and clearheaded analysis.” Indeed, we will have to wait until May 2009—when the first affected class will have committed to their universities—before the first set of concrete evidence will bear on the wisdom of the change. Nevertheless, we remain confident that higher education stands to benefit from the end of early admissions programs. Both Early Action (EA) and Early Decision (ED) programs create a perception, if not a reality, of preferential treatment to socioeconomically advantaged applicants. Moreover, this perception likely discourages...