Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson play at Providence tomorrow night before returning to the friendly confines of the Malkin Athletic Center for a big Ivy League weekend against Yale and Brown...
...high school, sketched out of memory and myth. The myth reflects the faith that we all have a chance to invent ourselves, and high school is the lab. We enter, still children, for this sweaty, four-year experiment, and if we are brave and lucky, we race out the big double doors that graduation flings open onto the rest of our life. Sometimes we don't even think to look back at the ones who got lost along...
...aren't allowed to wear a hat, toot your horn, form a clique or pick on a freshman, all because everyone is worried that someone might snap, it's fair to ask: Are high schools preparing kids for the big ugly world outside those doors--or handicapping them once they get there? High school was once useful as a controlled environment, where it was safe to learn to handle rejection, competition, cruelty, charisma. Now that we've discovered how unsafe a school can be, it may have become so controlled that some lessons will just have to be learned elsewhere...
...Star Wars line. "It was very strong in May and June, during the movie's release," says Leslie Rauch, a senior buyer for Target stores. "But since then, it's become nothing more than a boy's action figure." Schwarz of Rumpus Toys says the response from the big toy companies will be to spend millions more dollars on licensed merchandise tied to movies. "That way, if they fail, no one can blame them for making a mistake...
...process, Buffett has rebalanced Berkshire in startling fashion. The company's vaunted stock portfolio accounts for just 33% of Berkshire's total assets. As recently as 1995, the stocks accounted for a whopping 76% of assets. "To keep thinking of Berkshire as a big stock fund is absurd," asserts Alice Schroeder, an insurance analyst at PaineWebber. She began covering the company this year, underscoring Berkshire's insurance bent...