Word: collected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jules Feiffer, 1986 Pulitzer prizewinner: "I've only wanted what all nice Jewish boys want: to be honest, collect paychecks and get a few prizes...
When John Maynard Keynes was five, his great-grandmother wrote to him, "You will be expected to be very clever, having lived always in Cambridge." The advice came late. Precocious Maynard, with the assistance of his father, a Cambridge don, had already begun collecting stamps and would soon go on to collect butterflies, pen nibs and numbers. Any numbers. Cricket statistics, people's heights and weights, train schedules...
...said, aside from the question of vindication because Lakian has another lawsuit pending against the Globe on behalf of his Fort Hill investment company, which Lakian claims was damaged by the article. If he prevails in the personal libel case, Lakian would be in a stronger position to collect substantial damages in the Fort Hill case...
...most of the time, HMC is Wall Street's client. Wall Street firms executing transactions for HMC collect a commission on each trade, and the firms compete for HMC business. "Every [Wall Street firm] tries to get as much business out of Harvard or more," says Hilzenrath. In addition to HMC initiating a trade, Hilzenrath says that Morgan Stanley will try to drum up some business for themselves by suggesting investments...
...question is whether it will be opened before it gets there. The collection of essays will most likely travel directly from shopping bag to airplane seat to coffee table to Harvard memorial bookshelf and a place of esteem next to Erich Segal's Class, last year's reunion volume. Alums should do themselves a favor by giving Class another read and leaving this 350th momento to collect dust...