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With a large freshmen class of eight girls hustling to break into the starting lineup, the team’s intensity has risen, and it is hopeful the numbers in the win column will continue to follow...
...investors contemplating the frothier realms of the market should be getting nervous. Indiabulls, a financial-services firm that hopes to profit as wealthier Indians buy more stocks, has seen its shares quintuple since last fall, while shares of Pantaloon Retail?a chain of clothing stores, malls and supermarkets?have risen eighteenfold in two years as investors bet on the spending power of the Indian shopper. But such gains are less a reflection of unlimited promise than of limited supply, with investors bidding up the few stocks that offer a way to play these trends...
...beardless, youthful-looking Jesus, dressed in red and white robes, thrusts his right hand forward in a gesture that seems to burst through into our own space. One of the apostles does the same as he spreads his arms out in astonishment, realizing that he sits with the risen Christ. At the edge of the table, a meticulously rendered basket of fruit teeters partway in air. The later version of this same scene is more subdued. No 3-D effects, no catch-me-quick fruit basket. Christ's face is isolated against a dark background, as if to say that...
...China. Tim Clissold, the author and, in this case, the dutiful assistant, is in the midst of a grand tour of China with his new boss, known by the pseudonym Pat in the book, but in real life a fellow named Jack Perkowski, who in the roaring '80s had risen to become head of investment banking at Paine Webber. Theirs is not a sight-seeing tour. They are looking for places to invest millions of dollars that Pat intends to raise back home on Wall Street. They see more than 100 factories. They crisscross China, going to plant after state...
Despite the mud being thrown on their names, the profs of these Core courses have not risen up in arms. Most declined to comment, while others vaguely remembered having heard about the article but not having read...