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Harvard Square often bustles with street performers, musicians and eccentric artists looking to entertain. But the Square also supports a well-respected music and nightlife scene that often goes unnoticed by Harvard students, who tend to reserve Friday and Saturday nights for the Loeb, the Fly or the fallback beer-filled dorm room...
...insisted that the analyst's job is, first and foremost, to figure out what a stock is worth right now. He believed in comparing a company's share price to its existing assets and past earnings. Only after determining a stock's value today would Graham entertain guesstimates of what it might earn tomorrow. Anchoring his analysis in reality gave Graham what he called "the margin of safety." As he wrote in his classic The Intelligent Investor, "Operations for profit should be based not on optimism but on arithmetic...
...Schalken and van Dinther's "Eiland" and Paul Hornschemeier's "Forlorn Funnies" aren't as easy to read as other comix. But they aren't meant to be. You need to put aside conventional notions of how comix can entertain and accept that the challenge of such works becomes the entertainment...
That's especially true of the large number of vehicles being redesigned or discontinued for 2003. From compact cars to popular sedans to luxury vehicles, they are available in just about every body type. If you are flexible enough in your choice of make and model to entertain one of these changeover cars, you can find a terrific deal. "It's not unusual to save a couple of thousand on a sticker price of $20,000 or $30,000," says Bob Brisco, CEO of CarsDirect.com...
...spirit of fair play to cowboy Jody Brown and his endangered breed, let's entertain two arguments in favor of eating meat. One is that it made us human. "We would never have evolved as large, socially active hominids if we hadn't turned to meat," says Katharine Milton, an anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley. The vegetarian primates (orangutans and gorillas) are less social than the more omnivorous chimpanzees, possibly because collecting and consuming all that forage takes so darned much time. The early hominids took a bold leap: 2.5 million years ago, they were cracking animal bones...