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...This latest go-round featured hedge-fund operators, leveraged-buyout boys (who took to calling themselves "private-equity firms") and whiz-kid quants who devised and plugged in those new financial instruments, creating a financial Frankenstein the likes of which we had never seen. Great new fortunes were made, and with them came great new hubris. The newly minted masters of the universe even had the nerve to defend their ridiculous income tax break - much of the private-equity managers' piece of their investors' profits is taxed at the 15% capital-gains rate rather than at the normal top federal...
...Jeremy is a great kid and there’s nothing to be addressed here,” said Tim Murphy, the head swimming and diving coach...
Thursday we bought tons of water, peanut butter, canned beans, tuna and fruit. And ice. Mom boiled a couple dozen eggs. This ain't our first rodeo, as we say here in Texas. My family lived through Hurricane Alicia in 1983, when I was just a kid. But Ike seems bigger and a bit scarier. Maybe because I'm older and know better...
...working-class kid who attended Harvard, what was your impression of the student body and faculty? Alfred Basso CHARLESTON...
...below the British average. The hardest gig, Allan says, was his first, in front of his mother. "Picking up a guitar in the first place was braver than any of the songs that I wrote," says Allan, a semiprofessional footballer until the band took off. "When you're a kid, drinking, playing football or kissing girls are never going to be frowned upon. But when you start to let your guard down and express yourself, then there's room for people to take the piss...