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...good times among rich middle-aged men like George W. Bush. They want a place in the country where they can hunt, fish, sit with their wife on the porch in the evening, and maybe run just enough cattle to qualify for an agricultural tax exemption. But the biggest reward is that being a ranch owner fulfills their belief that at heart they are country boys. They will go to the country dances on Saturday night and attend the local church on Sunday and come back to work Monday feeling "restored...
Making matters worse, a lot of companies borrow funds to buy back shares, limiting their ability to invest in other opportunities and, increasingly, leveraging up to the point where their debt becomes riskier to the institutions that buy it. More risk requires more reward. So borrowing costs rise. This year Moody's has lowered the debt rating of 29 companies at least partly because of costly new buyback programs. All last year, there were just eight buyback-related downgrades...
What was the reward for such undying commitment and unwavering support? Nothing more than another year of maddening mediocrity: by season's end this Sunday, the Sox could very possibly find themselves no higher than third place in the AL East and fourth in the wild card...
...often undergraduates are unable to capitalize on the resources afforded by the graduate schools. The Office of the Provost is providing a new avenue for undergraduates to share in the wider Harvard community. This new fund will not only encourage collaboration between the different schools, but it will also reward those groups which already reach across campus lines...
...asleep during the Monica Lewinsky affair? Have its executives never watched "Judge Judy"? Americans watch television to wallow in scandal, not avoid it. NBC should be all over pill-popping athletes - yes, including our own guys and gals - and if it does the job responsibly, viewers will reward it. The Athens games, shaping up to be a fiesta of poor planning and security risks, should supply plenty of dirt for an enterprising network sports operation, and NBC should be on top of it like white on feta cheese...