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...McMahon also existed to reflect glory on the host and the guests, to be the buffoon and the butt of jokes when necessary. (They call the job second banana, after all, with all the pratfalls that the risible fruit implies.) Through it all, he kept a bluff good humor, something that must have taken considerable effort to seem as effortless...
...foreign context of Harvard, where casual allusions are strange and alien. In London, stripped of my “English” accent, I escape the differences cultivated by national culture, and revolve in a landscape that—compared to eternally confusing America—seems to reflect my every perception...
...CORRECTION: An earlier online version of the June 26 article "Suspect in Kirkland Shooting Indicted" incorrectly stated that Jabrai Jordan Copney pleaded guilty at an arraignment in Cambridge last month. In fact, Copney pleaded not guilty, and the text of the article has been updated to reflect the error...
...G.D.R. fashion was supposed to be of practical value, plain, ornamentless, modern, straight," says Henryk Gericke, one of the curators of the exhibition. "It was supposed to reflect the ideal image of the confident East German working woman." But when members of the Mob were wielding the scissors, they took fashion in a whole new direction. Passersby who looked into the windows of the shops in which the independent label ironically dubbed "Chic, Charmant and Dauerhaft" (Chic, Charming and Durable) held its first fashion shows witnessed scenes that couldn't have been further removed from the wholesome, clean style...
...group to outsmart the market, and studies showed that new information was quickly incorporated into prices. Eugene Fama, a young professor at Chicago's business school, tied all this together in 1969 into what he dubbed the efficient-market hypothesis. "A market in which prices always 'fully reflect' available information is called 'efficient,'" he wrote--and the evidence that such conditions prevailed in the U.S. stock market was "extensive, and (somewhat uniquely in economics) contradictory evidence is sparse...