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...that Fidelity's technology is the envy of the industry. An analyst can walk out of a CEO meeting anywhere in the world and within minutes determine which fund managers are interested in the stock, and file a research note to them. Now she's reinvigorating a performance-driven culture, giving Fidelity some sizzle by encouraging managers to make bigger bets on their best ideas. That's how Peter Lynch turned Fidelity into a household name. Ned Johnson has been speaking for the firm during the fund scandals that erupted last fall; he'll take the heat if trouble reaches...
When Tenzin Gyatso was born, in 1935, fewer than 2,000 Westerners had ever set foot in his remote and inhospitable country. No Dalai Lama had ever ventured outside Asia. Now, largely thanks to him, Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism are a cherished part of many a neighborhood. Since being driven into exile by Chinese troops in 1959, the Dalai Lama has set up more than 50 flourishing Tibetan communities in exile, overseen the transmission of his culture and its religion around the world and ensured that his homeland will have a life in many countries even as it is losing...
...real roar against these human rights abusers, just the odd bark. Yet even single-party democracies check their mail. They're not just muscle; they're vain. Even juntas measure just how many boos and hisses they can get away with. Suu Kyi's peaceful bloody-mindedness is driven by courage, but her captors' bloody bloody-mindedness is driven by fear--fear of losing the business they are running for themselves...
Telephone reception in remote Haitian villages is apparently pretty weak, so I had to wait four days for a peasant to switch a broken cord on Farmer's Internet-based phone. When we finally talked--after Farmer had driven four hours each way for a meeting with a Dominican health commissioner--I informed him that he wasn't top-100 important. He tried to take the news in stride, though he was clearly bummed out. "I was reading PEOPLE magazine recently, and a pop star--her first name is Jessica, but her last name escapes me, a blond--was saying...
These bouncy indie rockers are getting all sorts of bizarre Strokes comparisons, but they’re much more closely related to the Stills school of bass-driven Morrissey cribbing. A year after the release of their record, Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid, they’re finally getting some wider attention due to heavy touring and radio play for the tune “Misfit.” Seachange and Lockgroove open. $10 in advance, $12 day of show. 18+. 8 p.m. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Massachusetts...