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...slippery slope when you try to decidewhether a business is appropriate," he says. "Withany stock, you can find somebody who objects to itand somebody who doesn...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: At What Cost? | 6/4/1998 | See Source »

...numbers of people on the Internet with sizable portfolios who aren't yet shopping for stocks and mutual funds online," says Mark Wright, @plan's CEO. As a result, notes Eugene Ludwig, former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, the projected growth curve for online trading "looks like a ski slope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Nation Of Stock Keepers | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

Cornell Dean of Students John L. Ford said thatif the Senior Send-Off became an annual event thatstarted to attract students away from Slope Day,it would be worth the effort put into...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard's Spring Best? | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...Slope Day is a little more raucous, than wewould like to see it," Ford said. "[The Send-Off]is an attempt to be a wholesome, tamecelebration...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Harvard's Spring Best? | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...huge boxes and packs. Today is the fair, and the menfolk have gathered to barter for goods while women sit in circles, gossiping and sharing home-brewed chicha, or corn beer. We hike above the straw-roofed adobe huts, along the terraces that stretch across the face of the slope and 1,000 feet up, as impressive as any of the more frequently visited ruins. Clouds dip in over the peaks across the valley as I sit listening to my guide speak of growing up as an Indian under the hacienda system, a form of feudalism first put in place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Slow Climb | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

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