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During his 16-year term as president, Cabot steered HMC through the market crash in 1987 and cast the company—the first university management company of its type—in an unconventional mold. He globalized the HMC portfolio in the late 1970s and started investing in private companies and venture capital. Cabot says his investments were sometimes criticized as risky. But, by the time he stepped down in 1990, the endowment had grown to five times its initial size...
While Harvardians pampered the privileged percussion piece, rival schools were not so gentle with the drum. In 1947, an envious Eli attempted to crash through its cowhide face. But with tense skin and resounding timbre, the drum knocked the student unconscious...
Whether the market rises, plummets or flattens, whether it happens over one year or five, it will not undo changes that the boom has wrought in the relationship between homeowner and home. The tech crash and the market slump didn't erase the culture of stocks. Even after day-trading mania disappeared, there remained a broad class of people buying stocks and mutual funds who were more knowledgeable than they used to be about the market and more closely attuned to business news...
...leaving a half-dozen or so to fight over. By then a few strong personalities have emerged in the Jury's debates. In 1996, over the objections of the majority, two or three members, including director Atom Egoyan, pushed through a Jury Prize citing fellow Canadian David Cronenberg's Crash for "audacity." This year, a couple of those Type-A personalities are said to be clashing. A real tug-of-hair may be in progress. When the Jury comes on stage one by one, check for missing tufts...
...make them any less ambitious. If you're playing the best-selling Sims games--and 60% of you are women--your goal is to have it all: great house, killer job, hypersmart, multigenerational family. Judge for yourself whether that's more constructive than having the most spectacular car crash...