Word: levitts
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Paul R. Gross of the University of Virginia andNorman Levitt of Rutgers University write in theirbook Higher Superstition: "there is noknowledge...there are merely stories,'narratives,' devised to satisfy the human need tomake some sense of the world...
...table is also a good place from which to take in the eclectic decorations that the store has gathered since its establishment in 1883. the portraits of Levitt and Pierce, hung like altar pieces, stare back at you from the opposite wall. Replete with 19th century Harvard baseball team photographs and old maps of the square, the store is historically more interesting than any Crimson Key tour. The loft area, which counts among its decorations 1891 Harvard-Yale football tickets and census reports from the turn of the century, includes complimentary issues of Cigar Aficionado for you perusal...
Tailback Chad Levitt needs just 58 yards to break the 1,000-yard mark. The milestone--likely to happen this Saturday against Yale in New Haven, Conn.--would be only the seventh 1000-yard season in Cornell history...
...industry has expressed a willingness to cooperate with Levitt, and half a dozen or so funds have decided to try communicating in English. Many of the "conservative" bond funds have got heat from investors who lost money in 1994 and are saying they didn't understand what they had invested in. The managers of these funds have learned that an uninformed consumer can easily turn into a hostile consumer...
...Levitt succeeds, we'll soon see the day when investors know as much about how to invest their life's savings as they do about how to buy toaster ovens and tires. But good writing alone won't solve the biggest confusion with mutual funds: there are too many of them. At current count we've got twice as many funds as there are stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. Getting rid of a few thousand would be a big help...