Word: smart
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...main goal [this week] is to have zero turnovers,” Winters said. “I have to make smart decisions on when to throw, when to run, and when to throw it away...
...attention. Yet The Boston Globe and others who call for a fundamental change in Harvard’s investment philosophy as a result are themselves off the mark. Insisting upon conservative money management looks good now, but the benefit of hindsight will always change the evaluation of an investment. Smart management demands flexibility—this does not preclude conservative investment, but the willingness to take risks is a critical characteristic of successful money management. Such risk can, of course, generate significant return, as evidenced by the success of Harvard’s managers before the credit crunch...
...Tiger Bay. Local attractions have changed in the past 30 years. Prostitutes looking for sailors on shore leave once rubbed shoulders with the myriad nationalities who made up one of Britain's oldest multicultural communities. Regeneration means the Welsh parliament, the Millennium Centre (home of the Welsh National Opera), smart shops and restaurants now draw local professional couples and business visitors who would once have steered clear of the area and its nefarious reputation. (See pictures of London...
...sympathy with very public private lives of addiction and misbehavior. The stars' talent makes them unique; their transgressions make them human. Michael Jackson, who died in June at age 50, outlived Edith Piaf and Judy Garland by three years, and Elvis by eight. (Forget Madonna - that woman is too smart to self-immolate.) Jackson's bizarre resculpting of his features, his litigious shenanigans with his youngest admirers, his obsession with being an eternal preadolescent, a petrified Peter Pan: all these eccentricities gave him an otherworldly cast. It took death to restore his standing as one-of-a-kind entertainer...
...would have wanted? Of course not. He was an exacting man, and there's no way of knowing precisely what shade of gray-green or yellow-beige would have worked best for him or whether he was sure of what it should be until he saw it. He was smart enough to know that pictures are just fictions that point us back to realities with a fresh eye and that an artist is someone who adjusts the fictions to match his instincts. We value his pictures as much as we do because his instincts were first-rate...