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...School, which has always trended younger,” said Sanford Kreisberg, an independent admissions consultant who runs a much-followed thread on Business Week’s website about elite business school admissions called “ASKANDY.” “Ivy grads with nose-bleed GPAs and unclear career goals used to be hired for two years by investment banks and consulting shops during the boom. Now those kids, by default, go to law school, the haven of the unemployed and undecided. HBS may want some of that...
Sure, baseball is a lot of fun if you’re a fan of one of seven teams—but if you bleed Devil Ray Green and Purple, you’re screwed before the season even begins. It shouldn’t have to be that way. Dynasties are designed like George W. Bush’s tax cut: the rich get richer, and the poor remain lower class citizens, relegated to viewing high society from the outside...
...long-term financial problem: about half of us simply don't save. With streamlined tax-deferred options and no-questions-asked LSA withdrawals, Americans might feel they can save without locking up their money for decades. Fears that unrestricted LSAs would lead some undisciplined savers to ruin--they would bleed their accounts for frivolous reasons--may be well founded. But many, many more individuals, I believe, would be inspired to really save...
...worse heathens than they did before," wrote Daniel Defoe of trans-Atlantic slavetraders in 1702. In 1695 "Oroonoko", a popular London play, depicted plantation life and a bloody slave insurrection with striking sympathy: "If you saw the bloody Cruelties, / They execute on every slight offence . . . / Your heart wou'd bleed for 'em." In 1703 the Boston Puritan Samuel Sewall wrote against slavery in "The Selling of Joseph", and as early as 1667 his predecessor, Michael Wigglesworth, had contended that God was color-blind: "Although Affliction tan the Skin, / Such saints are Beautiful within...
...this for a product lineup: sensors for cutting-edge military drone aircraft, minivan-size airport baggage scanners, lifelike human dummies that breathe and bleed? If it sounds like a grab bag, that just goes to show how rapidly the defense business is changing. And the best model for a post-9/11, homeland-security-era defense firm may be L-3 Communications, which makes each of these unique high-tech devices...