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...years ago when they traded at their all-time highs. The financial results at the companies were pretty good then. When investors caught on that the party was over, they cut the market values of many of the companies by more than 95%. And, they did it quickly. A perfectionist would argue that investors should have seen the bad news coming. But, that is not unlike saying that stockholders should have seen the recession coming. If they had, the Dow might never have made it above...
...Updike served an eventful term as President of The Harvard Lampoon in 1953—kidnapping the president of The Harvard Crimson and orchestrating a close save of The Lampoon’s famed ibis statue. A noted perfectionist, he graduated summa cum laude the following year with a degree in English, before going on to a fellowship at Oxford and a job at The New Yorker...
...Neuwirth’s love of dance was evident. She first worked on this piece with fellow dancer Pam Sousa, who had learned it directly from Bob Fosse, the original choreographer. Neuwirth, who has also worked with Fosse in other productions, described him as a phenomenal choreographer, a perfectionist with great creative impulse. “Everything came out of one clear, specific vision,” she said. Woodies explained that through Neuwirth, the students would be able to bring Fosse’s passion back to life by understanding his vision more concretely. This is, in fact...
Harvard’s checkbooks may be fat, but its students aren’t. Harvard’s high proportion of student athletes and a general perfectionist attitude have likely spared it from the national obesity epidemic—look around any dining hall to see students noticeably thinner than the national average. Of course, the same factors that keep us fit also leave us vulnerable to eating disorders. However, HUDS’s recent decision to remove nutritional information from dining hall placards will not only serve as an ineffective means of fighting eating disorders, but also deprive...
...Crimson’s only score of the second half. “He’s such an unbelievable competitor, and he’s really hard on himself at times,” Murphy said. “He’s such a perfectionist, but he came through today when we needed him most, and he’s going to have to do that the rest of the season.” The run kept what had been a pass-happy offense—the Crimson had thrown over 91 passes through two games?...