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...revenues of $77 billion in 2003) and shareholder's delight (the stock has risen far faster than the market since 1986), but also as a dominant global bank that trades on its good reputation as much as on its capital and contacts. Prince calls the Citi brand "a precious thing," and told FORTUNE that "the celebration of financial results causes a few people at the edges" to stray. His challenge: to impose a new culture of ethics while maintaining the aggressiveness that led Citi to its global dominance. --By Daniel Kadlec
With nine incoming freshmen, six of whom were forwards, Donato couldn’t clog a precious spot on the line charts and wait for Lederman to turn the corner—which, of course, the Canadian might never...
Sophomores Precious Eboigbe and Caitlan McLoon were also undefeated in that weapon...
...Eighty-five years after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, our society seems to have escaped the ravages once associated with the female vote, and in modern America the suggestion that only men should be allowed to vote would be deemed contrary to the spirit of precious freedom and democracy. Perhaps one hundred years from now, citizens will look back on our era and wonder at our hidebound refusal to enfranchise children, just as we now marvel at the outmoded beliefs of men such as Williams...
...completed, there might be a limited desire to change anything about the library. The mysteries—not just of Pusey 3 or of the hallowed top-floor faculty offices, but even of the frescoes and the memorial room—will remain the domain of those with a precious university affiliation. Nonetheless, as the university plans its growth into Allston, the needs of visitors should not be ignored. To an important extent, Harvard is a public institution, and its halls must be thought of also as public spaces. Pursuing ever more exalting and inaccessible tasks makes...