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...from a $100,000 Bentley to a Falcon jet--and turned him into the dart-board face of tort reform. At 58, he works out of a small firm in Oxford, Miss., with his son Zach and two other lawyers. Scruggs has given up the Bentley for a more modest BMW. "He got it out of his system," an associate says. And Scruggs insists that his latest crusade--against nonprofit hospitals he says are gouging the poor--isn't about the money, at least not for himself. "It would be greedy for those of us who made...
...Jean-Philippe Cotis, the O.E.C.D.'s chief economist, says that unlike the oil shocks of the'70s and early'80s - when the price was almost double in today's dollars - the increases aren't prompting inflationary wage demands, and so far haven't hurt consumer demand. "The impact is modest," Cotis says. His view was confirmed by the U.S. Federal Reserve, which raised a key interest rate last week in a sign that it too believes the U.S. economy is rebounding. - By Peter Gumbel Hiding The Red Ink The E.U. threatened Greece with legal action for underreporting its budget deficit...
...Executive Dean J. Bonnie Newman said that early projections show the school generating a modest surplus again in the 2005 fiscal year—a remarkable contrast to the school’s $5.9 million shortfall in fiscal year...
When you received your crimson-inked acceptance letter and checked yes on the prepaid postcard, you relinquished your right to be modest about your college, at least to people who would kill to trade lives with you. The aura surrounding Harvard students throughout the world is yours to wield as you please. This aura will grant you instant respect from Aachen to Zanzibar. Wield it wisely, and don’t ruin it for others. Downplaying your Harvard credentials anywhere in the world will only reduce Harvard’s prestige and ruin any respect you’ve built...
...better alternative to all this is for Harvard students studying abroad to admit that they go to a great college, and to be thankful. Instead of trying to appear modest by downplaying the advantages they have, Harvard students should just be modest about everything else. My international internship is counting...