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...Wilford is no ballet dancer, but he has shown the ability to find seams and to run the option well. He was sacked six times for 45 yards, but he also evaded the rush several times, stepping up in the pocket to complete passes down the field. Last week, Wilford ripped off a 41-yard run in the Crimson's 24-7 win over Columbia. He finished with 71 yards on 10 carries and added to that total with 31 yards on 15 carries against the Crusaders. Take out the six sacks for -45 yards, which all count in Wilford...
While the hiring this summer of Carly Fiorina as the first female CEO of Hewlett-Packard was considered a seismic event among the Valley's pocket-protector set, members of the dot.com generation barely shrugged. For many of them, the boss already is a woman. The boom in e-commerce--and the relative unimportance of engineering expertise, where men have ruled--has produced dozens of young entrepreneurs like Della & James' founders, Jessica DiLullo Herrin and Jenny Lefcourt: business-savvy women running Internet companies that cater mainly to women, peddling everything from wedding gifts to cosmetics to knitting. "Women are looking...
...funds pay no income or capital-gains taxes so long as they pass on the gains and resulting tax liabilities to shareholders once a year, usually in November or December. Most investors never take a fund's distribution as cash; they reinvest it and pay the tax out of pocket. That's why the worst time to buy a stock fund is just before the annual payout. You get hit for a year's worth of taxes even if you owned the fund briefly...
Envision, if you will, a normally dressed person of South Asian origin. Without a pocket protector. Without an accent. Have you ever seen that on TV? Of course not. And 35 percent of the world's population is South Asian or of South Asian origin. Now, I have nothing against either pocket protectors or accents. But I don't think that absolutely every person of South Asian origin has them...
Students eating dinner in Adams House dining hall last night were unanimous in their dislike of the new pals. Gregory A Hudson '02 said he would never use a Pocket...