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...cases—Israel divestment excluded—the movement involves divesting from a mining or oil company that is doing business with some objectionable regime in the developing world. This isn’t surprising; political economy has shown that rare and valuable resources like oil breed corruption. While divestment may be appropriate in some cases, for example PetroChina and Sudan, in most cases it is an impractical option...
...amazing how violent it is inside the cockpit. You are just holding on with five Gs pulling at you and the blood is leaving your brain. It's pretty intense." Cruise, 23, was impressed with the mettle of the men who fly the machines. "They certainly are a breed of their own," he says. "One instructor told me, 'There are only four jobs in the world worth having: an actor, a rock star, a jet fighter pilot and President.' " At Cruise's age, having a go at two out of four...
Bulls by nature are sprinters who tire quickly. But the breed on Wall Street is displaying the endurance of a marathon runner. The stock-market rally that began more than three years ago is as robust as ever. The stampede, spurred at first by a sharp drop in interest rates, started on Friday, Aug. 13, 1982, with a twelve-point rise in the closely watched Dow Jones industrial average, to 788. The runaway Dow took only six months to close above the 1100 mark for the first time ever and just two more to break 1200. Though the market slowed...
Celebrities of this new breed have one thing in common: they all write effectively. "Networking is catnip for people who communicate best by the written word," says Art Kleiner, a Berkeley, Calif., writer who runs conferences on CompuServe and EIES. In the world of computer networks, he says, "Good writers have charisma, mediocre writers improve, pushy or insensitive writers get ignored...
...year: spring. The time of year when Harvard men remember that they are, in fact, mammals. And, it appears that this one has bowed to his natural instincts and has taken the initiative to ask you out. In fact, it seems he’s even of a higher breed, asking you on a date instead of bluntly groping you at the Mather Lather. We welcome spring! We have moved away from the winter months when Harvardians can comfortably submerge themselves in their intellects, finding satisfaction in contemplating Kant’s categorical imperative, finding derivatives of polynomial equations...