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...comparing the hedge-fund boom to the dotcom bubble. While the best funds do make lots of money, they generally require a long-term commitment from investors. And the lack of consistent and transparent strategies among various hedge funds doesn't help. Says Ian Morley, CEO of Dawnay, Day Olympia, a joint-venture asset management concern: "Hedge funds are many things, and hedged isn't usually one of them." Hedge funds originated in 1949, and were for many years the province of the hyperwealthy, who used them to protect assets during market slumps. Some of that high-net-worth legacy...
...White House. When the United States convened an international conference in Botswana to discuss the issue last month, the European Union’s leading drug regulatory authority boycotted the meeting. Congresspersons, including independent-minded Republican sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, have signed open letters criticizing the administration’s stance...
...look at them sexually,” explains Sperber. “I look at them because they remind me that I don’t want to become a Harvard intellectual.” Sperber’s goal? “I will win the Mr. Olympia contest some day,” he boasts. Every morning, Sperber wakes up with roommate Brendan J. Corcoran ’07 to lift weights and build up his body so he can emulate the athletic perfectionists that adorn his walls...
Times Square was conceived, really, in 1895, when Oscar Hammerstein, whose grandson would write The Sound of Music, opened the Olympia Theater, a gilded concert hall and playhouse that covered an entire city block on what was then called Longacre Square. The kind of man who once composed an opera in 24 hours on a bet, Hammerstein was also the kind who sold 10,000 opening-night tickets for 6,000 seats. Disappointed ticket holders broke down the doors. Within three years, he was bankrupt. But the idea of the neighborhood as a center of entertainment spectacle lived...
...girl's pose is an inversion of the reclining European nude--Manet's Olympia flipped. She lies at an improbable angle across the bedding, but the very awkwardness of her position gives her weight within the picture, and by extension, the world. Even when, in The Ancestors of Tehamana, he painted the same girl more conventionally, in an upright and frontal pose and a modest Western dress, he placed her before a stylized background of native spirits and glyphic letters borrowed from the Rongorongo tablets of Easter Island. Those tablets have never been fully decoded. Neither has Gauguin...