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...protesters nip after Schwarzenegger because he has proposed four dramatic reforms that may be voted on in a special election next fall if he can't get action in the legislature. The four initiatives would cap spending, make the public employees' pension system less expensive, introduce merit pay for teachers and offer tenure only after 10 years of service, and create an independent panel of judges to draw legislative districts. These are the sort of good-government ideas that political scientists-and wonky columnists-love but that politicians avoid because they arouse fanatic opposition from entrenched interests and inspire massive...
Junior Cherie Piper retaliated on the Big Green’s behalf with just over two minutes left in the frame to bring the score to 5-2 and cap off a wild flurry of goal scoring. Piper’s slapper through traffic beat Horak inside the left post for the seventh goal in a shade under 18 minutes. The first period concluded with only 17 shots on goal, seven of which found their way past the goalies...
...investors have short memories, and financial firms create whatever products are suddenly in demand. Today, that means a new generation of India-focused mutual funds and hedge funds, often with wonderfully alluring names like (my favorite) the Monsoon India Inflection Fund. The most voguish vehicles of all are mid-cap funds that bet on riskier Indian companies that may one day grow up to be blue chips. In November and December alone, the CNX mid-cap index jumped 28%. Nilesh Shah, head of equity strategy at Kotak Securities in Bombay, says his team's fledgling mid-cap fund, targeted...
...cap off their residency, Pig Iron will perform Adriano Shaplin’s “Hell Meets Henry Halfway”, a dark comedy centering on nihilism which is adapted from Witold Gombrowicz’s 1939 novel Possessed...
Some argue that blocking went wrong when the College lowered the cap on blockmates from 16 to eight back in 2000, creating problems for large groups of friends now forced to break into smaller clusters or cut members one at a time. It’s too easy to attribute the stress of blocking season to a certain shallowness—when it comes down to it, picking blockmates is a popularity contest of sorts. Being the odd one out carries a certain stigma, and nowhere can this unfortunate mindset be seen more clearly than in the attitude displayed towards...