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When the Soviet ship Baltika throbbed into New York harbor one morning in September 1960, demonstrators on a chartered sightseeing boat waved placards: ROSES ARE RED, VIOLETS ARE BLUE; STALIN DROPPED DEAD. HOW ABOUT YOU? Nikita Khrushchev laughed and pointed. A few weeks later at the United Nations, a Philippine delegate gave a speech complaining about the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe. Khrushchev astonished the General Assembly by taking off his brown loafer and banging it on the table as if it were a spoon on an infant's high chair, except that in this case the banging...
...Harbor Lights Financial Group of Toms River, N.J., is marketing a service to manage, not just give advice about, 401(k) portfolios for a fee of as much as 1% annually. The firm is in discussions with Verizon, among other companies. Ernst & Young is offering a service, called eAdvisorPlus, that's Web-based but includes access to planners. And the giant fund company Fidelity has started a pilot program with the Victoria Advocate, a Texas newspaper. Fidelity charges as much as 0.6% of assets and funnels participants into one of four portfolios based on responses to a questionnaire; a Fidelity...
Editors working under Sisler harbor no illusions about the academic life-and-death consequences of the decisions they make, along with their colleagues at a handful of other top presses. But they’ve steeled themselves to the necessity of saying no 10 times out of 11. “It’s certainly in mind that it’s important to these young scholars, to assistant professors to Ph.D.’s on the job markets, that a prestigious press would publish their book,” McDermott says. “That cannot...
Turning points come in many forms. There are the easy calls. The attack on Pearl Harbor, the fall of the Berlin Wall--these are moments that the world builds monuments to or that we do individually, in our hearts and minds. Then there are the ones whose importance we understand in retrospect. You didn't mark it in your diary when benefits consultant Ted Benna devised the 401(k)? Neither did we. On the day in 1938 that oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia, the king was unimpressed because he had been hoping to find water. Then there...
...imagine some form of sociopolitical action that might relieve their condition. Stevie makes a few feeble gestures toward those conventions. But should you choose to endure Steve James' film, you are likely to emerge questioning not just the basic documentary premise but, possibly, such optimism as you may harbor about the whole, yes, damned human condition...