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...expertise to major U.S. corporations and institutional investors - and from this highly empowered middle-man role, what they say has a lot of influence. The model that came to be dominant in the 1980s was one of constant change. The idea is that there's a lot of dead wood out there and people should be constantly moving, in lockstep with the market. If a company isn't constantly restructuring and changing, then it's stagnant and inefficient, a big lumbering brick. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Anthropologist on What's Wrong with Wall Street | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

Jabrai J. Copney, 20, a suspect in the May 18 Kirkland House shooting that left a Cambridge resident dead, pleaded not guilty to five charges, including first-degree murder, at his Middlesex Superior Court arraignment Wednesday morning...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Suspect in Harvard Shooting Pleads Not Guilty to All Charges | 7/22/2009 | See Source »

...except that this very logic is necessary to substantiate the belief that managers do make a difference. Take, for example, Joe Maddon, the celebrated manager of the Tampa Bay Rays. In his third year in Tampa, Maddon took the Rays to the World Series—after finishing dead last his first two years. Maddon is now regarded as one of the league’s best, because he succeeded in flipping that switch...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Managing Expectations | 7/21/2009 | See Source »

DIED French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, 24, who was ranked 119th in the world, had just begun a six-week suspension--for betting on matches in which he did not play--when he was found dead July 7 in Paris. The cause of death was not immediately known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

McNair seemed like a model citizen, a married father of four who was active on the Nashville charity circuit. But when he was found lying dead in his apartment next to his mistress, Sahel Kazemi, that happy portrait was cracked forever. McNair was shot four times; Kazemi also died from a gunshot wound. Authorities confirmed that the deaths were a murder-suicide committed by Kazemi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steve McNair | 7/20/2009 | See Source »

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