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...novice round, freshman Susan Andersen led the way with a first-place finish in the Level 5 division. Andrea Fraser won her Level 3 class. Freshman Samantha Merton finished in second place in Level 4, while Diane Ortiz placed fifth in the same division. Bridget Bailey rounded out the novice round with a sixth-place finish in Level...
...Dragoons in the 1850s. But for a few years more, the core will be soldiers who trained to fight from the saddle. They call one another Trooper, so that former noncoms and onetime generals can feel at ease as they retell old stories, many of them true. Merton Glover, a big, angular man of 69, retired years ago as a platoon sergeant. He trained as a horse soldier, but in 1942 he was transferred to Fort Meade, S. Dak., where the cavalry was experimenting with mechanization. The concept was shaky at first. "Their idea for a while was to have...
...trading pits are supervised by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which also regulates such mundane commodities as pork bellies and grain futures. Congressman Markey calls the gap between the two agencies a "regulatory black hole." The Mercantile Exchange argues that the C.F.T.C.'s performance has been perfectly satisfactory. Says Merton Miller, finance professor at the University of Chicago: "Competition can be good, even when it's competition among regulators...
...aren't quite what you'd expect. "We read the autobiography of Anna Russell the other week. Very racy," says Father Dalby, who at age 86 is one of the senior members of the community. "Sometimes we have a more spiritual book, like some of the writings of Thomas Merton," he adds...
Modigliani's wide-ranging achievements have proved valuable to investors and corporate officers too. In bestowing the prize, the Nobel Committee cited a pathbreaking Modigliani study of the value of stocks. Written in 1958 with Merton Miller of the University of Chicago, the paper showed that investors look mainly at a firm's prospect for future profits when deciding what its shares may be worth. Those findings are now second nature to executives and securities analysts...