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Company myths can be misleading. At Nomura Securities, Japan's largest brokerage house, the corporate lore is rich with images of untiring devotion to the interests of the small investor. But when push came to shove during last year's disastrous decline in the Tokyo stock market, Nomura ignored its own myth. Rather than helping small investors, the company furtively paid out millions of dollars to a few large corporate customers to cover losses they had suffered in the market's fall. Even worse, Nomura had allegedly helped arrange loans to Susumu Ishii, the onetime leader of one of Japan...
...athletes are treated like musicians. The fact that athletes scored significantly lower on every single category used to judge applicants over a ten-year period with the sole exception of athletic rating, and the very existence of that rating, makes it clear that football players are given a hard shove into Harvard that violinists can only dream of receiving...
Aware of Winnie Mandela's erratic behavior in recent years, many South Africans were guessing that the once-divorced Nelson might give his wife the shove following his release from prison. Not so. With Winnie facing trial in February on kidnapping and assault charges, Nelson is now springing to her defense. The government has subjected her to a "great deal of persecution," he says, adding that the press found her guilty before she appears in court. "I was unable to give her protection when I was in prison," he explains. "((But)) I am now here." Should the verdict go against...
Something certainly clicked, since the penalty kick Dartmouth converted minutes later would be all the scoring the aggressive Big Green could muster. But Dartmouth still managed to shove the Crimson scrum all over the field...
Since alumni children are certainly not three times more likely to be qualified than other applicants, these statistics suggest that the fabled "tip" is more like a hard shove...