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...founder (with George Soros) of the hugely successful Quantum Fund, investment guru Jim Rogers had made enough money by 1980 to retire at age 37. Since then, he has spent his time jaunting around the world, writing books on his travels and investment advice with names like Adventure Capitalism and Investment Biker. In 2007 he moved to Singapore to get a front-row seat at Asia's economic boom and also saw the launch of tradeable securities tied to a commodities index he created. His newest book, A Gift to My Children, is a compendium of advice - financial and otherwise...
...Read an interview with Jim Rogers on the commodities boom
Harvard Law School Professor Michael J. Klarman, another of the new honorees, said the award is likely due to his book “From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality,” which won the Bancroft Prize...
Losing one's job can make enjoying the last few benefits more difficult, of course. Jim, an American communications executive in Paris, began studying French on his company's dime last fall, and in February upped the frequency of lessons from two to four days a week after learning he would be let go in May. "It's pretty hard to stay motivated when you're facing a total blank in two months," he says. But at least now he can add language skills to the résumé he'll be passing around. With reporting by Bruce Crumley...
...there is a movement afoot in the U.S., in the legislatures of New York State, California and Massachusetts, to reconsider our overly punitive drug laws. Recently, Senators Jim Webb and Arlen Specter proposed that Congress create a national commission, not unlike Portugal's, to deal with prison reform and overhaul drug-sentencing policy. As Webb noted, the U.S. is home to 5% of the global population but 25% of its prisoners...