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After years of creating new kinds of commissions for the brokers who sell them, some mutual funds now resemble a vat of alphabet soup cooked up by a character out of Dr. Seuss. There are A shares, B shares and C shares, not to mention D shares, I shares, Y shares and Z shares--all collecting different fees in different ways...
Some projects, like the Dr. Seuss mural in the kitchen, were probably a planned group effort. Others—like the cheddar-cheese labels in the shape of a flower that stick to the fridge or the lumpy root displayed on the mantle—seem to have been done purely on the spur of the moment...
...posters have been torn down by hundreds, labeled offensive and called a “vicious campaign against women.” How information about a developing baby is any of those things, I don’t know. To say that a simple exclamation point, a Dr. Seuss quote or the naming of the child spells manipulation is a stretch. While people complained about these specific features, what seems more likely is that they are actually afraid of what the information implies. If a fetus truly does have a heart and fingers and its own distinct nature and looks...
...enduring shelf life. What other product created in the 1940s still sells well, almost completely unaltered? Goodnight Moon, Pat the Bunny and The Poky Little Puppy, sexagenarians nearly all; each still moves more than 150,000 hardbacks just about every year. And let's not even start on Dr. Seuss or P.D. Eastman. (Well, we can start: Green Eggs and Ham sold more than 500,000 copies in 2001, 41 years after it was published...
...Harvard women. This is not a policy initiative campaign or an awareness campaign. It is a campaign aimed at intimidating pregnant college women into not seeking abortions. To take the edge off, HRL has sugar-coated their message by couching it in childish language with a quote from Dr. Seuss and identifying the fetus as a little girl. Even the name choice is not benign: “Natalie” is derived from the Latin word for “birthday” or “born on Christmas,” with implications of the birth...