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...previous book, The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine (we're talking pigeons, sparrows, raccoons, etc.), by going after the massive and mythical buffalo. "In the spring of 2005," he writes, "the state of Alaska announced that it was issuing twenty-four hunting permits for the Copper River buffalo herd." He and 1,302 other hunters sent in their applications. Rinella won a permit, and off he went, on both a literal and an intellectual expedition, hoping to get one of the creatures in his rifle sights while also exploring the history, misconceptions and science behind the beast...
...Goldfinger," Shirley Bassey It's less a song than an alphorn to herd people into movie theaters, and Bassey walks the line between seduction and camp with the same dexterity as Sean Connery...
...warned that too many hedge funds were investing in the same way. Because those sophisticated computer models were crunching the same data, there was a higher probability that hedgies would make the same bad bets, potentially causing a devastating cascade of failures. With so many fund managers following the herd, in other words, there was a greater chance that they would go over a cliff together. "A bank run doesn't affect just one bank," says Andrew Lo, a finance professor at MIT who applies ideas from psychology and evolutionary biology to investment. "It can easily spread to the entire...
Northwestern's Hori says the silver lining in the current climate is that many students are stepping back to reflect on whether they really want to follow the Wall Street herd even if recruiters do eventually come knocking. At Stanford, where 37% of business school students who graduated last year took finance-related jobs, many students are looking closely at non-finance companies recruiting on campus for the first time, including Facebook, Disney, and Sony. Resnick, Hori and leaders of other schools likewise report rising student interest in alternatives to finance, particularly in areas like social enterprise, energy, and health...
...conservative districts, Pelosi's team has expanded the Democrats' appeal in long-hostile territory. Childers actually runs strongest in rural towns that support John McCain but resent growing Memphis, Tenn., suburbs like Southaven. That presents dilemmas for Democratic leaders back in Washington, who may find new members of their herd hard to corral. After the galvanizing force of Bush is gone, they'll have to figure out what still unites them as a party...