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...product is a paltry $350 a year, according to the World Bank, compared with $510 for sub-Saharan Africa. In February, Le Kha Phieu, the 68-year-old Communist Party chief who runs the country, lashed out at "imperialist forces [who] have expanded the world market everywhere for maximum profit." Such rhetoric flies over the heads of the younger generation. Its members are reading from a different script, a script they had to write themselves...
...scholarships were to be underwritten by the Brown Sports Foundation, a not-for-profit booster club unaffiliated with the university...
Harvard maintains that, as in previous cases when it has tried to protect its name, the issue is more about principle than profit...
...also have the option of weeding out losers and taking a deduction while keeping the rest. For steady, small-dollar investing, you still can't beat common mutual funds, especially those in a 401(k) plan. But exchange-listed, tradable stock funds aren't just another fee-laden profit center for Wall Street. For many investors, their low cost and tax flexibility make them a useful alternative...
...remembers his family's being treated kindly by my maternal grandfather. This is not so improbable. My grandfather was a very kind man--some people, in fact, thought that it was his kindliness that made it difficult for him to run even a tiny grocery store at a profit--and it's easy to imagine his extending credit to people down on their luck. In fact, you might say that uncollectible debts from such people were the major part of his estate...