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...still shamefully laugh at a 1972 cartoon in which a Chinese warrior says, "That banquet was most delicious, and yet now, somehow, once again I feel the pang of hunger." It's that every week Mankoff has to reject great submissions because the research department sends him typed index cards enumerating similar jokes made in New Yorker cartoons over the past 79 years. Seriously, people, let go of the deserted island...
...turn, the coach and several of my teammates shouted at me to step back, but I didn’t know if they meant back from the plate or back from the machine and while I was asking the clarifying question the ball slammed into my right index finger, which has since curved to the right slightly more than it should. This memory ran in repeat in my mind as the bullriders told me to sit down, then back, then up, then place my hand, no the other way, tighten, release, hold this rope, open again, hold another rope...
...trying to fix the perceived flaws that these works unearthed. The athletic rollback movement culminated in the 2003 cutbacks at the Council of Ivy Group Presidents’ spring meeting, which, among other things, cut the size of incoming football recruiting classes from 35 to 30, raised the Academic Index (AI) floor from 169 to 171 and cut the number of full-time and part-time football coaches...
Price wars are nearly unheard of in the mutual-fund industry, but last week Fidelity Investments, run by Edward C. (Ned) Johnson III, right, cut expenses on five of its index mutual funds. The move, which follows other fee cuts, like the elimination of many funds' sales charges, was a direct swipe at index-fund leader Vanguard Group and a nod to the increasing popularity of exchange-traded funds--low-cost baskets of stock that track particular indexes and trade on stock exchanges. Expenses on the five funds, which are pegged to such benchmarks...
GALLAGHER: Financial services would benefit more from an expanded IRA, which has a greater chance than Social Security reform. Reform wouldn't funnel money into private mutual funds but to companies that index the market. The tax-free savings account is a bigger deal...