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...word of caution about Harvard's student groups: Everyone's a leader. Everyone wants to have a title and a say in the group's fate, so executive boards run huge. This means you will lock antlers with people over small decisions, but it also means you can simultaneously hold a spot on the board of three different organizations at once...
...admitted they needed to know more. And so this rollout is all about making introductions. If they get this right, Bush aides whisper, the G.O.P. nomination might be all wrapped up in the next three weeks. That is a breathtaking admission of a breathtaking strategy: raise so much money, lock down so many endorsements that the spotlight follows you everywhere, your opponents freeze to death in your shadow and, best of all, you cruise straight past the primaries and into the general election as "a uniter, not a divider," with none of the debts and scars and promises that slow...
Certainly, some of the smaller outfits will make it--there's always room for niche players, as the rise in focused Internet funds proves--but it is likely that the business will never again have the same kind of lock on the retail investor. Jokes veteran portfolio manager Martin Whitman of the Third Avenue Value Fund: "You haven't seen a more speculative, irrational market in years. The inmates are running the asylum." The industry just hopes that, sooner or later, it can get them back in line...
MODEM CHASTITY BELT The folks at Tel-Lock understand how hard it can be to trust your kids when they're online. So rather than ask you to monitor Internet use in person, Tel-Lock provides a special telephone jack that locks with a key to block any incoming or outgoing calls. At $20 a pop, replacing all your outlets with Security Jacks (available at telephonelock.com could be costly--especially if one of your kids needs to call 911 someday. CEO Calvin Flowers calls the Security Jacks "foolproof...
...orange card taped above the lock on the door of 76 Mt. Auburn St. is the latest example of recent tensions between undergraduate and graduate members of Harvard's all-male final clubs...