Word: performancy
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...pressure to perform--and keep the cash rolling in--might also induce hedge funds to take the more insidious risk of adding heaps of debt--as happened with Long-Term Capital. "You worry about one manager blowing up and having it ripple through the industry," says Mark Anson, chief investment officer at the California Public Employees' Retirement System. A serious ripple could lead to a rapid decline in stocks and bonds as large financial institutions try to unwind their complicated strategies at once...
Husband and wife duo Mates of State perform their lovers’ rock with synthesizers and drums at the Middle East. Boston bands Victory at Sea—celebrating the release of their new album—and Helms open. Shenzou 5 and the Firebird Band provide further support. 18+. Tickets $10. 7 p.m. Downstairs at the Middle East...
...Bash, as people call the Pepsi Summerbash, is basically Chicago’s answer to 106 & Park, where top 40 rappers and singers play 15-minute sets and DJs perform ridiculous skits. It was a three-day event, but since we could only afford tickets to one night, we had to miss R. Kelly, D12, and Twista in favor of an incredibly awesome lineup featuring Ma$e, J-Kwon, Houston, Jojo, and the Ying Yang Twins. I picked Juice up at the train station around 5:30 and we gunned it straight to Taco Bell, where a group of short...
...course, there is no need for much consternation about this change. It is, after all, only cereal, and thankfully, HUDS did perform taste-tests over the summer to ensure quality control. (Of course, it should be noted, the panel of tasters conveniently consisted of members of the HUDS purchasing department, HUDS chefs and a group of student interns.) Still, we must admit, while the cereal tastes a bit different, it is not horribly different. The true significance here is whether these changes mark another year of cutbacks and deceptive justifications, or a year of increasing and more fruitful responsiveness...
There are the chess-players, the guitar-players and the mimes that perform their silent acts by the pit. There are the bands playing while a crowd of Harvard students and locals mesh together. There are the coffee shops, where Pulitzer Prize winners and distinguished professors rub shoulders with the homeless...