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...Even the day of perhaps his greatest academic achievement—the day when the 2008 Pulitzer prizes were announced—Howe continued his fascination with historical storytelling. As though he were writing a story—as if he wanted the climax to come at the very end??he wrote in a note to his wife: “Meet me at 6 in the St. Alban’s parking lot.” “P.S. I won the Pulitzer.” —Staff writer Mark J. Chiusano...
...March 31, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index has remained essentially flat over that period.The SEC’s Form 13F requires institutional investment managers that oversee more than $100 million in exchange-traded stocks and closed-end companies to report those holdings. Companies are “closed-end?? if they sell a fixed number of shares that are traded on exchanges, whereas open-end companies, such as mutual funds, collect public money and invest the funds in stocks, bonds, and other securities.Harvard also invests extensively in foreign stocks, private equity, fixed-income bonds, and real assets...
...week, Iran’s controversial president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made a speech in which he said nasty, provocative things about Israel, leading to international uproar. Controversy is nothing new for Ahmadinejad, whose previous remarks—including “The American empire in the world is reaching the end?? and “Israel is about to crash. This is God’s promise and the wish of all the world’s nations”—are notorious...
...game-winner. “After tying it up we were really hoping that we would get the draw control,” McMahon said. “The past three possessions we had really been pressuring out and the defense just had a lapse there at the end??we definitely shouldn’t have pressed out as much on the last shot.” With many defenders out of position, Columbia’s Gabrielle Geronimos rolled the crease and hit a bounce shot to put the Lions ahead for good, securing their first conference...
...from the perils of one of the movie’s most famous scenes—a heart-stopping car chase in which protagonist Jimmy Doyle (played by that year’s Best Actor Gene Hackman) rockets through Brooklyn traffic tailing a criminal who has hijacked the West End??s elevated train. Lacking the funds to block off the street or film the chase on a closed set, Friedkin had simply sat in the passenger’s seat with his camera pointed forward and taunted the driver until he tripled the speed limit...