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...world at that—Harvard has the opportunity to genuinely take care of its workers in a way that companies in the free market usually cannot. By enacting a living wage, the University can begin to become an ideological leader once more, not just a number-crunching behemoth...
...Allianz's $21 billion purchase of Dresdner, Germany's third-largest bank, creates a $100 billion financial behemoth. With just short of $1 trillion in assets, Allianz becomes Europe's second-biggest asset manager. More important, the marriage of two of Germany's financial leaders will likely unleash a wave of consolidation, adding some welcome competition to Germany's overcrowded banking market...
...those rejecting the rat race to spend more time with their families, perhaps the most famous is Peter Lynch. While the 47-year-old investment superstar was busy building the Fidelity Magellan mutual fund into a $13 billion behemoth, his youngest daughter got to be seven years old, and he felt he hardly knew her. Last spring he stunned Wall Street when he decided to give up his 14-hour workdays. With a nest egg estimated at $50 million, Lynch could well afford to quit. But many ordinary people evidently felt a connection with what he did, for he received...
Bollinger early caught the attention of many observers in part because of his particular position as the single head of the behemoth Michigan system and a series of policy decisions that brought him national attention...
First, there was Bush's recent tax cut speech. Well, no one can say the middle class didn't see it coming. But if this $1.6 trillion behemoth actually crashes to earth, the effect on the middle class will be catastrophic. With 40 percent of the reductions being absorbed by the wealthiest one percent of American families and with inequality on the rise since the 70s, the tax cut alone may reduce the middle class to memory...