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...Credit Suisse, UBS and American Express. Performers came from across Europe and the Americas. Germany alone sent two complete opera companies - a massive mobilization that involved 420 people and 16 trailer-sized shipping containers. The overall program was an eclectic one that included an evening-long tribute to Leonard Bernstein performed by the China Philharmonic, a globally competitive orchestra that pushed aside the government symphony in 2000 and that Long himself was tapped to lead. Just days after the 2008 festival ended, Long traveled to New York City, where the Bernstein performance was shown on eight giant screens in Times...
...deflation. "Sure, we're very cognizant of it," one source familiar with Fed's thinking on the matter told TIME this week. "We don't think we're there yet, but we're very aware of the possibility." So is Wall Street. At Merrill Lynch, chief investment strategist Richard Bernstein issued a report within hours of Barack Obama's election, listing three developments for investors to monitor closely: fiscal stimulus, taxes and deflation. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
Sage advice, that. But for how long will it be followed? "Risk gets forgotten in all bubbles," says Peter Bernstein, an investment adviser and the author of Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. "We've been down this particular road before." Indeed, we have. After every other trauma--the 1987 stock-market crash, the savings-and-loan crisis, the meltdown of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund--boisterous, unchecked risk-taking eventually rushed back in. "In times like this, people do listen to risk managers," says John Hull, professor of derivatives and risk management at the University...
...long after, Plimpton created participatory journalism, foisting himself into ball games and orchestra pits (his absentminded triangle-playing infuriated Leonard Bernstein), where his earnest failures made for excellent pieces. What comes through in each episode is Plimpton's unquenchable curiosity, a love of human folly--especially his own--and a modern shrewdness; his fame as a professional amateur begot more fame, which gave him even greater access...
...been extinct for over a decade. In a book signing Thursday night at the Harvard Coop, Chivian, the founder and director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School stressed the importance of preserving the planet’s biodiversity. Co-authored by Aaron Bernstein, his book addresses the loss of biodiversity in terms of potential medical research and treatment. “We have no [environmental] Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” he said, comparing the negative impact of changes in the global environment to that of nuclear weapons. Chivian...