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...masters and co-masters of Harvard's 13 Houses wrote a letter to The Crimson, published yesterday, in which they committed themselves to supporting "the principles of tolerance and mutual respect" that apply to everyone, regardless of sexual orientation...
Profoundly saddened by the brutal murder of young Matthew Shepard in Wyoming last week, we wish with one unhesitating and single voice to recommit ourselves to the principles of tolerance and mutual respect in our separate communities and in the College as a whole. We consider it fundamental to a university and to our duties as House Masters to honor the dignity and life of every individual without exception--regardless of sexual orientation, religion, gender, class, race or ethnicity. ROBERT AND JANA KIELY, Adams House JAMES AND JANICE WARE, Cabot House WILLIAM AND BARBARA GRAHAM, Currier House EVERETT MENDELSOHN...
...yields fall. And boy, have yields been falling. Just three months ago, the government's benchmark 30-year Treasury bond carried a yield of 5.72%. Last week it was as low as 4.72% before drifting up to 5.12% on Friday. Amid tumbling rates, the average, boring government-bond mutual fund rose 4.6% in the third quarter--a period in which stock funds fell an average 15%. Since June 1996, T-bonds have risen 60%, vs. only 54% for the big stocks in the Standard & Poor...
...current interest and is sold at a deep discount to its face value. The interest payments are built into the price at which the holder redeems the bond when it matures in five to 30 years. Zeros are easily obtained through a broker, and there's a series of mutual funds called American Century Benham Group Target Maturities (800-345-2021) that invests in nothing but zeros. Those funds have been top performers this year...
Galbraith has made news in recent days for predicting that the United States is heading into a recession due to a "speculative bubble." He has said that U.S. markets are "very vulnerable right now. Not only the stock market but also the hedge funds and mutual funds...