Word: roberts
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...risk. But the crash in global equity markets has dented fund performance and fractured investor confidence. In September alone, $43 billion fled the $1.7 trillion industry, according to TrimTabs Investment Research. "Hedge-fund investors are losing so much money elsewhere, they're shooting first and asking questions later," says Robert Howe, a fund manager in Hong Kong...
...many Western democracies, Ireland included, have a tendency to shy away from politicians who are far more intelligent than themselves. Adlai Stevenson was one of the best examples of this. As for any politician completely understanding the global financial mess, well, sadly Einstein is not on any ballot. Robert Liffey, DUBLIN...
...feel optimistic about domestic issues is one thing. Sen. Barack Obama has rewarded the hopes of many who thought that his election in America today was perilously impossible. To feel optimistic about political issues in far-off continents is quite another. As a supporter of Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe’s power-sharing agreement in Zimbabwe—which is currently in a state of collapse—I now face the reality of this distinction. Yet the situation in Zimbabwe is so dire that it absolutely requires optimism, as irrational is it might currently seem...
...have an insider’s perspective from someone who has been on the other side would be helpful for close-call cases.” But Curll said that the book was written with the knowledge and support of the Law School admissions office, Law School spokesman Robert L. J. London ’79 wrote in an e-mail yesterday that Curll’s book “doesn’t have anything to do with admissions at Harvard Law School today. The Law School does not endorse particular books on admission to law school...
...worthy of such distinguished company is a question best left to historians far more knowledgeable than I, but, if the Arizona senator had any chance of one day joining this senatorial “hall of fame”—since expanded to include Arthur Vandenberg and Robert Wagner—prior to this year’s presidential campaign, his defeat in last Tuesday’s election saved it. By losing to Barack Obama, and losing gracefully, McCain virtually erased any ill will he created through his poorly run and often tactless campaign, ensuring that history...