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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis might or might not have been happy to observe last week's frenzied auction. But one onlooker can only be delighted: the Internal Revenue Service. It stands to pick up a large chunk, maybe even most, of the $30 million or so net that was raised...
...sense this because Blue, a struggling songwriter, is so persevering; he has spent a good chunk of his career composing and producing a musical version of the Odyssey. The title: Odyssey! It's a fitting project. Blue has a free-spirited twin brother named Red ("the most fugitive color") and in essence has spent his romantic life trying to go home, trying to recapture the incomparable bond of his youth. The question that riddles him: "Are twins, or lovers, or while we're at it since I don't know how they're matched up either, figure skating partners...
Weed says two doctoral classes, lab work and tutoring took up a substantial chunk of his life at first, but now he has gotten into the main focus of his studies at Harvard: genes...
...this year's lottery will take several years to balance out. In addition, reinstating gender controls will require a vote of the 12 house masters, so it is not even certain. We would like to urge the house masters to pass the controls, and thereby take a small chunk out of the flawed policy of randomization...
...reason is that a big chunk of the money flowing into mutual funds--more than half of it in the case of Fidelity Investments, the nation's biggest fund group--comes from retirement plans like 401(k) savings funds set up by corporations to pool their workers' contributions. "With 401(k)s, regardless of what the market does, people are plowing in their money week after week, fortnight after fortnight, month after month," notes Robert Brusca, chief economist of Nikko Securities, a Wall Street firm. Once a worker designates a certain portion of his pay to be set aside...