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John Harvard migrated to Massachusetts in 1636, the 29th year of his life. Married but childless, he died of consumption only two years later, leaving half his estate to a newly-founded college. As the Biblical proverb would have it, so long as Harvard lived, he lived alone. But in dying he brought forth great fruit...
TREES DON'T GROW TO THE SKY" IS the way generations of stock-market traders have rephrased the proverb, What goes up must come down. But that ancient bit of sententiousness is out of favor on Wall Street today. To be sure, no one quite dares to predict that after more than eight years of almost vertical ascent since the Crash of '87, share prices can keep going up forever. There are some signs of nervousness that one of these days a financial version of the law of gravity will reassert itself, as evidenced by last week's 94-point...
Narcisse concluded his remarks by citing an Ethiopian proverb: "He who conceals his disease cannot expect to be cured...
Quoting a famous African proverb which says "it takes a village to raise a child," Prothrow-Stith said that high-risk children who grow up in "unhealthy" surroundings may be incapable of benefiting from parental care...
...proverb goes, "It's never too late to mend." McNamara is still the man. We would never expect him to come out to face contempt and criticism. And, rationally speaking, it makes little sense to go all the way back to that tumultuous period with the same indignation felt by the whole nation 20 years...