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...define this rally as the difference between the May or June low and the highest point reached in July, August or September. By that measure there is a rally not just every summer, but every season. And get this: seasonally speaking, the summer rally is the least exciting. Yale Hirsch, editor of the Stock Trader's Almanac, studied seasonal Dow moves back to 1964 and found that, on average, the summer rally was good for a 9.7% gain. But the autumn rally--August or September low to the high reached in October, November or December--averaged 10.4%. The winter rally...
...employers offering this perk aren't providing pet health insurance per se, but rather a discount plan that cuts the cost of veterinary visits and prescriptions by a set percentage. Three-year-old Pet Assure, Inc., of Dover, N.J., provides one such plan, and according to company spokesperson Jerry Hirsch, demand has never been higher. "This is just another way employers can keep workers happy," Hirsch says. "Companies have to be creative just to retain employees these days, and helping them with pet health care costs is one way to do that." When a pet is enrolled in Pet Assure...
There's considerably more teaching freedom in a program called Core Knowledge. It was fashioned by University of Virginia English professor E.D. Hirsch Jr., author of the best seller Cultural Literacy, on the premise that there's a canon of facts that all schoolchildren should know. In lieu of precise lesson plans, teachers are told that third-graders, for example, should study the Punic Wars and sixth-graders selections from Shakespeare. "There's been a real diffuseness in curricula," says former Education Secretary William Bennett, whose new book The Educated Child lays out a grade-school curriculum based on Core...
Carter's speech was part of a book tour promoting James S. Hirsch's biography Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter...
...wanted to strip away the mythology surrounding his life," Hirsch said while introducing Carter. "I wanted to get to the core...