Word: pros
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...some pros and cons to that. There are some conversations I need to be able to have without everybody speculating about those conversations and what it signals...
Even jaded pros speak with squishy, New Age adulation of his mysterious abilities to make other people better, a reputation enhanced by the Bhagwanesque curtain of hair across his face. But Rubin, 43, feels he's credited with more magic powers than he actually possesses. "So much of what we do is just common sense," he says. Rubin co-founded Def Jam Records with Russell Simmons out of his New York University dorm room in 1984 and had a huge influence on the early history of rap (that's him as DJ Double R on the Beastie Boys' Licensed...
...complaining, and neither are we. FM predicts that 2007 will be the year of Blake. Formerly of the Harvard College class of 2001, Blake broke out into the pro tour the summer of ’99. Leveling at a decent top 50 ranking in the pros (after being No. 1 on the college circuit), Blake seemed to make the transition swimmingly. That is until 2004, when he broke his neck in practice, contracted a virus which left one side of his face paralyzed, and lost his father to cancer. Other than being forced to shave his snazzy dreds, Blake...
...sometimes lead their teams to great success during their short stints, they mostly evoke a feeling of free agency in its ugliest sense. That sense is, of course, that sport is all about what your team gives you—truckloads of money, a straight shot into the pros, a Rolex and an Escalade from an anonymous “sports booster”—and not about what you give to your team. To those who say Greg Oden and his fellow grown-man-sized “one-and-doners” are too good...
...time, the pros controlled only 15% of the U.S. stock market (the figure is now more than 60%). But they did the bulk of the trading. They moved the market. And therefore they could not, as a group, beat it. The mutual-fund industry's attempts to move this boulder by taking bigger risks ended badly. When the stock market plunged in the 1970s, the funds followed...