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...earned about $30 million a year from Zerit, Yale’s president Richard C. Levin told the school’s alumni magazine this month. Yale later sold off its remaining rights to the discovery to a group of investors for “a lump sum in excess of $100 million,” Levin added...
...this native New Yorker leans on just a few evocative nouns, and her melodies grow in the wide open spaces between delicately played guitar chords. Her singing on the standouts You Just Forgot and Please Stay is cool and restrained--not from an absence of feeling but from an excess...
Conflict and disagreement are necessary ingredients in our democratic process, since they force politicians to refine and question their ideas and check excess. Regardless of whether Republicans or Democrats dominate the government, when a single party gains disproportionate power, radical and unwise policies are bound to ensue. The nagging opposition’s counterarguments and criticisms can be safely ignored, allowing the majority to adopt imprudent policies without thinking them through. Nowhere else in the nation is the need for balance more urgent than in Massachusetts. If Kerry Healey is not elected as a check against the legislature...
Take energy funds. Investors poured more than $23 billion into them in the 12 months ending in July 2006, just in time to lose $4.5 billion as those funds swooned in the following months. Not surprisingly, those funds posted average annual gains in excess of 30% from 2003 through 2005, outperforming all other categories. As they say, past performance is no guarantee of future performance...
...StarsThe Queen wears Cons and rocks out to New Order and the Banshees in Sofia Coppola’s lavish, though perhaps excessively opulent, re-envisioning of one of history’s most infamous monarchs. Inspired by Antonia Fraser’s somewhat controversial biography, Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” offers a sympathetic portrait of a young girl trapped in a glittering and cold palatial prison. The film follows the Austrian-born princess from her engagement at 14 through her life at the royal court of Versailles. The majority of the film centers...