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...increased interest owes in part (maybe mostly) to the fact that quants have done quite well of late. Casey, Quirk & Associates, an investment-management consultancy, took a look at institutional pools of money buying the stocks of large U.S. companies and found that those run by quants have consistently beat those run by nonquants since the beginning of 2003--by up to 2 percentage points a year...
...have a tendency to want to beat the system, in the elections, in sports accreditations, and even in civil-service exams." RICHARD GORDON, Philippine senator, on news that hundreds of applicants who took the Philippines' nursing-board exams had been leaked the test questions in advance...
...Predictions: Harvard will beat Yale. Again. You will hook up with a Bulldog and develop a strange rash. More...
Chinatown Bus These buses, created to carry Asians from one ethnic enclave to another, offer no frills and irregular schedules. But the price is hard to beat: fares start at $15 from Boston to New York City and $20 from Los Angeles to Las Vegas...
...away the assless chaps and is ready to focus. Basics, already the top-selling album in the country, sprawls over two discs, the lesser of which is dedicated to the singers who have inspired her. On Back in the Day, over vinyl scratches and a minimalist beat, she ticks off her roster of heroes (Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin, etc.) as if the past is a green room in which she can mingle with legends without regard for their individuality; in the end, all the greats just get filed under "fun music." Aguilera doesn't know much about history...