Word: riches
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...they taught young Terry that there was a glamorous land, far from working-class Liverpool, where dreams came true. "At seven," he says, "I saw Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain, and discovered the movies, loved them and and swallowed them whole. ... Musicals, melodramas, westerns: Nothing was too rich or too poor for my rapacious appetite, and I gorged myself with a frequency that would shame a sinner." But he wasn't a sinner; he was a convert to the platonic ideal Hollywood painted: "In all those movies it was always Christmas and it was always perfect...
...Wall Street Journal reports that the iPhone is so feature rich that "the resulting growth in downloading and Web browsing will strain AT&T's network." AT&T is not alone. Sprint (S) and Verizon Wireless (VZ)(VOD) are up against the same problems...
...major question is what impact the virus will have in the next flu season, when the conditions could be ripe for the disease to spread rapidly. Another concern is what will happen in developing countries that haven't yet had to deal with H1N1. Rich countries like the U.S. can afford to spend millions on antivirals like Tamiflu, but in poorer nations, especially in those parts of sub-Saharan Africa where rampant HIV makes the population more vulnerable to secondary infections like flu, H1N1 will likely take a far greater toll. Indeed, health officials said last week that early evidence...
Daly wasn't flashy, but he dressed the part. Another Piston player, funnyman John Salley, named him "Daddy Rich," for his snazzy suits. Daly's coiffed hair, and intense stare, will live long in the mind of the millions of fans who fell in love with the '80s NBA, an era of great players (Bird, Magic, Michael, Isaiah, Barkley) and even greater rivalries, most of which involved Daly's Pistons. Sure, Boston-Los Angeles received the top billing, but the Boston-Detroit, Chicago-Detroit, and Los Angeles-Detroit playoff series are all classics. "I think Chuck understood people as well...
...While “Harvard is Rich: No Layoffs,” might seem an unconvincing oversimplification, efforts to force the administration to recognize layoffs as ruinous events in individual lives rather than mere statistics have a place in this debate. That those individuals may be recent immigrants with limited education makes it more urgent. A publicly traded company has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders—by law, it must care only about their good; a nonprofit organization has made a commitment to be run for the general social good. As such, the meaning of this goal...