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...This latest go-round featured hedge-fund operators, leveraged-buyout boys (who took to calling themselves "private-equity firms") and whiz-kid quants who devised and plugged in those new financial instruments, creating a financial Frankenstein the likes of which we had never seen. Great new fortunes were made, and with them came great new hubris. The newly minted masters of the universe even had the nerve to defend their ridiculous income tax break - much of the private-equity managers' piece of their investors' profits is taxed at the 15% capital-gains rate rather than at the normal top federal...
...browse or buy. Twentysomething Caroline Dunlevy, who was making her second visit since the boutique opened, admitted it's changed her perception of what a charity shop could be. "It's really a cut above the others," she said. Real quality is always good for a second go-round, especially if the price is right...
...wait.“His fiance will call and they’ll talk about where they’re registered, and what band is going to play at their wedding, and where they’re going for their honeymoon,” Jenkins’ close friend, Crimson captain Matt Vance says. “It’s kind of surreal.”In the meantime, in his last go-round as a collegiate baseballer, Jenkins will try to nail down the second-base job and help propel Harvard to another Ivy League crown. He?...
...third of soldiers deployed to war zones, including Iraq and Afghanistan, are on at least their second tour of duty. While the Pentagon doesn't break down these statistics by theater, it's clear that the proportion is higher in Iraq, where many troops are on their third go-round...
...final edition of Around the Ivies stamped with my goofy mug (online readers, you’ll have to trust me), I watched Jeopardy! and put on sweats. But before that, I brainstormed, “What’s something special I can do to mark this last go-round?” I considered sending a coded message with the first letter of every paragraph, or peppering the prose with phrases in Spanish, or letting my 14-year-old sister write it to see if anyone would notice...