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...would call you,” Sullivan said. “They would want to know who’s on the court, who’s doing what, what the league looks like. Then, they would draw up a consensus of opinion. Now, the magazine racket is all driven by one thing—first on the market. They don’t have time to bother with the Ivy League...
Boston’s residents have been driven out of neighborhoods such as the Fenway by rents that they cannot afford—this development should help stem the tide. With Harvard’s purchase, graduate students will have the opportunity to form a close graduate community. Harvard’s deal will reap rewards for students and neighbors alike...
...Street's biggest investment banks, did not suspect that there was anything amiss in the funds industry until he began investigating it this summer. "Most people had accepted that the mutual-fund industry was reasonably free of these sorts of problems," he says. That reputation is partly what has driven mutual funds' tremendous growth since they were established in their current form in 1940 as a way for the average investor to play the market without taking on too much risk. Thanks in part to the rise of 401(k) plans, which added retirement savings to the pool, 54 million...
Back up. O.K., stop. A little more. O.K., now turn the wheel. More. More. Too much! Sorry, sir, was that your car? If you've ever driven in a city, you know the agony of parallel parking in a tight space. But your suffering may soon end. Toyota has invented a car that parallel parks itself. This new version of the Prius, Toyota's hybrid gas-electric automobile, has an optional self-parking feature, which combines a rear-mounted camera, power steering and special software that automatically guides the car backward into its curbside destination. With Intelligent Parking Assist...
...tour she plans to kick off next March (she's organizing a group trip to Vegas for "inspiration"); work on her next album ("I'm already writing songs"); and, if she can squeeze it in, start her own record label ("Maybe by next year"). But this well trained, media-driven Mouseketeer wouldn't have it any other way. "I've never liked to chill out," she says, ignoring the army of beauticians, bodyguards and publicists buzzing around the room in preparation for tonight's big event. "I tried taking a break once. I announced that I was taking a year...