Word: mason
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...stock market has a brutal way of making even the smartest people look foolish. Just ask Bill Miller, America's most celebrated mutual fund manager, whose Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Md., has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled...
...Kennedy School prides itself on being the most international school at Harvard, with 43 percent of our students being drawn from 80 different countries. Hundreds of students study international development here and many have gone on to senior positions throughout the developing world. Our Mason Fellows program allows us to bring emerging leaders from developing nations to study at the Kennedy School. And our unique Master in Public Administration/International Development Program equips young leaders with the skills to tackle the most complex development issues...
...Brilliant Career (perhaps she saw something of landed gent Harry Beecham in Neill, whose family founded one of the New Zealand's largest liquor importers). And it was while filming a TV costume drama in Melbourne a few years later that he was phoned by actor James Mason and flown to London to be groomed as a star. "I was never from an early age convinced that I had a destiny," says Neill, 57. "No, it was just a bunch of happy accidents...
...offender in Mason City, Iowa, who lives within sight of a day-care center and asked not to be named in this story, told TIME he plans to move to Nebraska or South Dakota to escape Iowa's pending residency restrictions. Convicted at 19 for having nonforcible sexual relations with a 14-year-old, he served two years in prison before his release in June 2004. "What really bothers me is that years from now, I'll still have to worry about something I did at age 19," says the offender, who is now 23. "This is like using...
...that Chinese fans are easily pleased, but expectations are rising. Beijing's Workers' Stadium was two-thirds empty for Man U's game; fans in the same arena jeered Real Madrid's halfhearted showing. Players will only "do what they have to do to drive the interest," suggests Rob Mason, managing director of London-based sponsorship consultant firm SBI. "There are signs fans are getting wise to this." That's something to tackle next summer...