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...parents is at best an unsavory prospect, but dealing with waves of political junk mail from them isn’t much more appealing. Some send angry responses, some ask their families to cut it out, and others simply ignore the e-mails entirely. I fit into the latter group. When I got tired of reading about “former president Jimmy Carter’s anti-Israel frenzy,” I put a spam filter on messages from my mom. Lo and behold, the e-mails stopped coming...
...hasn't hurt that Hong Kong stocks have been on a tear. The benchmark Hang Seng Index repeatedly set new all-time highs in the latter part of 2006, gaining 34% for the year. The rally got a big boost from an influx of investors hoping to cash in on the appreciating yuan by buying shares in mainland companies. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index, which includes only China stocks, soared...
...There is always a fine line between being too willing to forget the past, and spending one’s whole life in it. I think Harvard students are, as a rule, guilty of the former far more often than the latter. A healthy relationship with one’s hometown, parents, and family is, well, healthy. Even more importantly, if more Harvard students possessed such relationships, we’d see fewer Brady jerseys being dusted off for their annual appearance right about...
...some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the word “impressing.” We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system-beating, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...backdating or recommended favorable dates to boost stock value but says he did not benefit from the two grants he received because he gave up his right to exercise them in 2003. One was for 10 million shares in January 2000, the other for 7.5 million shares. The latter grant was finalized in December 2001 but backdated to October, when the stock was 13% cheaper. "The report seeks to downplay Jobs' involvement and the extent to which he understood the accounting implications of improper dating," says Bebchuk. The report implicated "two former officers," understood to be CFO Fred Anderson...