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...frequently referred to in postings simply as The Greatest Pedal Steel Player Who Ever Lived. A query about the history of the instrument gets me a personal e-mail from one of its elder statesmen, Maurice Anderson. It's the pedal steel equivalent of a guitar chat group where Jeff Beck or George Benson would weigh in occasionally...
...year since the Burton impeachment. Additionally, in response to the question "Whose fault is the current lack of a definitive winner?" responses ran the gamut. Geoffrey Starks '02 responded, "all fault, in all ways, lies with Republicans, just kidding. I think this is the result of poor decision-making." Jeff Letalien '01 answered "Gore should acknowledge defeat. This is not the World Series. We shouldn't need to wait for a winner of four out of seven counts...
Five Harvard students are giving up Thanksgiving at home this month to help fight global warming. We, along with Diana R. Movius '03 and law school students Jeff M. Baran and Sierra B. Weaver, will be participating in the U.S. Student Climate Summit in The Hague, Netherlands, where we will represent the students' voice in the current round of international climate negotiations. Here...
Underscoring that point, one unusual hedgie, Jeff Vinik, has racked up stellar gains by taking an Everyman's approach to investing. Vinik, the onetime manager of Fidelity's Magellan Fund, doesn't touch derivatives, futures or options, generally won't mess with commodities or bonds, and doesn't make macro currency bets. Such high-octane strategies are the purview of many hedge funds, and the reason some of those funds have made small fortunes--out of very large ones...
...Most parents reside on pedestals, and if Dad's had been a little higher than the norm, he had that much farther to fall." So writes Tina Sinatra (with Jeff Coplon) in My Father's Daughter (Simon & Schuster; 313 pages; $26), her affectionate but clear-eyed memoir about life with Frank. The thought continues: "I could accept him as just a man. But he'd stood so large in my eyes that I couldn't bear to see him smaller than life...