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After I graduated, a number of alumni withheld contributions from Harvard and put them in an escrow fund until divestiture occurred (which turned out to be in 1990, coincidentally the year Mandela was freed and well after the crucial struggles had happened). We also petitioned to elect candidates supporting divestiture, among other things, to the Board of Overseers, and successfully elected both Gay Seidman '78, first woman president of The Crimson and an SASC activist, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the Overseers, much against Harvard's wishes...
...magician," says Primakov. "Don't judge this government by its first hundred days." But his first two appointments will frighten foreign investors and worry Western governments. They probably guarantee that the next bailout installment of $4.3 billion from the International Monetary Fund, due this month, will be held up. The U.S. opposes even considering another payment until it sees Primakov's plan to stabilize the Russian economy. "All previous programs are irrelevant," says a White House aide...
...things seem to be happening way too fast in the world economy. Countries no longer slide into recession; they plunge headfirst over the cliff, faster than a fund manager can hit the redial button on his phone. Now that Russia's finances have imploded, the worriers are turning their attention to the other onetime communist colossus grappling with economic reform: China. Since the once vaunted "Asian miracle" has taken on the aura of a curse, a lot of investors and governments are asking if the People's Republic of China will be the next to fall...
Nevertheless, the disparity in price has simply grown too wide between big and small companies with comparable earnings per share and comparable prospects going forward. Last week the great Peter Lynch--who outperformed the S&P for the 13 years during which he made Fidelity's Magellan Fund America's largest--brought his common-sense wisdom to bear on the issue. He's adamant that the real value today is in the little stocks, and he's confident that some will grow to be big ones. You have to get the next Ciscos and Intels precisely when they...
They probably won't pay off immediately, but small stocks will reward the patient, as they always have before when they were this much cheaper than the large caps. If you don't have time to research individual companies, consider a solid small-cap fund like Babson Enterprise II or Berger Small Cap Value, or a Russell 2000 index fund, which gathers the small-cap castoffs in a neat bundle. Or buy a fund based on the Wilshire 5000 index, which includes both large- and small-cap stocks. Both types are sold by fund companies like Vanguard and Fidelity...