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...does leave, Crockett would be the second Ivy League hurler in as many years to leave school early. Last spring, Princeton's Chris Young elected to make the jump to the pros after getting drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates...
...predictable as kabuki. A president is foolish and undisciplined to get rhetorically involved in an issue (oh, let's say, gays in the military) simply because it happens to be in the air at the moment. Each argument (police brutality, abortion choice and so on) instantly deploys its predictable pros and cons. I know all your arguments, you know all my arguments. If a man's presidential ambition is to see America continue as an afternoon talk show, a sort of brawling Jerry Springer spectacle from sea to sea, then by all means seize each emotional agitation as it flies...
...Skinny: Evidence of the Fighting Irish's inability to hang with the Florida schools atop the rankings can be found in the fact that Notre Dame's best alumni in the pros are veterans...
...Skinny: No All-Pros here, but some good veterans mixed with Brown and Arrington, who went 1-2 in the 2000 draft...
Until recently, few pros would even debate the value of moderate exposure to foreign markets. But a backlash has surfaced. Merrill Lynch, for example, now advises clients that foreign holdings should make up only about 5% of their stock portfolios. More important, the firm contends, is diversification by industry. That has long been a prudent part of portfolio management. But now some say it's the only part you need. If you are in the big global industries--technology, media, consumer cyclicals, health care, energy--you have all the diversification you need, even if all the companies are based...