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...years Yale: 304 years Edge: Harvard. As illustrated above, we value old things. We also have Sam Huntington. Acceptance Rate Harvard: 9.1% Yale: 9.7% Edge: Harvard. Egos thrive on exclusivity. Admissions Yield Harvard: 78% Yale: 68% Edge: Harvard; applicants on Yale’s wait-list. City Air Pollution Index (lower is better) Cambridge: 75 New Haven: 96 Edge: Harvard; our lungs. City Property Crime Risk (lower is better) Cambridge: 102 New Haven: 255 Edge: Harvard; people stealing in New Haven; people who own things at Harvard. So, there we have it: conclusive, empirical proof that Harvard is top-shelf...
...Magellan, once the largest stock fund of any kind, has seen its assets shrivel to less than half its peak of $110 billion in 2000. It lost its biggest-fund title to the Vanguard Index 500 in April 2000, and isn't even Fidelity's largest fund today-it now trails the $56 billion Fidelity Contrafund. But Magellan remains by far the company's most visible-and hence most important-fund. During half of the years in the 1977-to-1990 tenure of the incomparable Peter Lynch, the fund recorded gains of more than 30%. To some of the company...
...There is little doubt that Fidelity is feeling pressure from Vanguard, the low-cost fund company that specializes in passive index-fund investing as opposed to Fidelity's preferred style of active management. Index investing has soared in popularity. American Funds is a dominant provider of funds sold through financial advisers and has used that network to stoke its growth, as opposed to Fidelity, where only a portion of its funds are sold through advisers and which traditionally has relied on good performance so its funds stand...
...balancing formulas and judgment calls, Bernanke has argued for picking a target rate for inflation and making clear that the Fed would cut interest rates when inflation fell below the target and raise them when it pushed above. Bernanke's presumed target: about 3% for the Consumer Price Index...
...Arlington Police Department. The woman was brought to an area hospital for treatment for injuries sustained in the attack and the investigation was turned over to the CPD. Bennett was charged with these two crimes based on a DNA match made through Massachusetts’ Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), an electronic database that allows federal, state, and local crime labs to compare DNA samples. Seminal fluids recovered from rape test kits performed on the two victims were found to match Bennett’s DNA profile. According to CPD spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello, Bennett’s arrest...