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...Adam joins the “54’ 40” or Fight” Club, forever forging a bond between himself and his childhood hero, James K. Polk...
Buffett plainly warns against do-it-yourselfers' venturing, as he has, into concentrated positions in the junk bonds of individual companies. "These are not, we should emphasize, suitable investments for the general public," he wrote in last year's annual letter, in which he copped to having bought 13% of the debt of bankruptcy-bound financial-services firm Finova. But investors can approximate this kind of investment by buying a diversified junk-bond mutual fund...
Students aren’t surprised to hear about Hare’s unconventional work outside the classroom. Molly M. Faulkner-Bond ’06, who knew Hare as her TF last semester, says Milo was a constant companion in section. “Brian explained to us that [Milo] was lonely left at home during the day and the neighbors were sick of his barking,” she says. “In section he usually just sat under the table and you forgot he was there...
...puts on the cardigan and laces up his sneakers. That scene, repeated in each episode, created a reassuring sense of predictability, intimacy, trust and familiarity in the double sense of the term. It didn’t matter what else happened. Mister Rogers had created in that moment a bond, a connection that made it possible to sit through the mind-numbing, quirky and often camp amusements that followed when you took the trolley into Make-Believe...
...says Paulo Leme, head of emerging market analysis at Goldman Sachs in New York, noting wryly that the PT used to oppose pension reform. "They understand now that what causes poverty in Brazil is the excessive size of the state." Will Brazil's Congress understand that too? Lula's bond with the governors, who wield considerable influence over their congressmen, was a critical stroke. But the PT holds only 14 of Brazil's 81 Senate seats and 91 of the lower chamber's 513. In a bid for the support necessary to pass the reforms more quickly, Lula took...