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...crack” and “investment banking” on the list of things I am likely to try in the future. I don’t anticipate a life of unhinged isolation, but given the right reading material, being a cat lady doesn’t sound like that bad of a life.The pets I had growing up are some of the defining characters of my childhood and teenage years. One of my first memories is of my first cat, Yossarian, dying. We kept her body in the garage for three days before we could cremate...
...learn to assume that the impetus will always come from “above,” where will we be when we, the students, the under-appreciated, find ourselves as policymakers in these governments, brokers in these markets, or researchers in these labs? Perhaps we sound puerile in taking one bout of newspaper reporting and raising the stakes so high; but the reality is that we sell ourselves short if we aim any lower...
...decide my schedule.”Buffett sat down with the Harvard group for two hours on Friday afternoon. Students were eager to hear the Berkshire Hathaway CEO’s tips for financial success.“Investing is not about having a 200 IQ. You need a sound temperament and the ability to think for yourself,” he said. “Institutions get caught up in fads, [and] you have to keep your own scorecard.”Using the example of China’s stock market, Buffett argued that emotional management is central...
...don’t understand that language once you fall out of it.” King, who has seen a number of his novels grace the big screen, added that big-time film producers who tell their stories through a vehicle of images and sound are often restricted by Hollywood’s expectations. RIGHT TO WRITE King did add some hope and praise for his colleagues, though. “People who write short stories are gunslingers,” King said, possibly referencing The Gunslinger, star of his magnum opus book-cycle, “The Dark...
Above the sound of clinking coffee cups in a Zurich café, Andrew Katumba, 36, a Socialist candidate for parliament in Switzerland's national elections on Sunday, is outlining what he sees as the country's most urgent problem. "Switzerland is one of the strongest democracies in Europe, and yet one in five people cannot vote," says Katumba, whose father fled Uganda to Switzerland during Idi Amin's reign of terror, when Andrew was 3. "We are not integrating foreigners...