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...already be so well diversified that you need not make many adjustments. A disciplined investment approach through good times and bad is ever the best policy. Trying to time the stock market is especially futile. In the 20 years through 2006, the Standard & Poor's 500 returned an average annual 11.8%, but the typical stock-fund investor earned only 4.3%, according to a study by research firm Dalbar. Fund fees play a role in that gap. But investors' errant attempts to move in and out of stocks at lows and highs are mostly to blame...
Branson thinks he understands those intrepid travelers a little better than his competitors do. The only way to survive crushing fuel costs in a global slowdown, he says, is to be an airline that people seek out and will pay for. "You can't just make it a standard product," he says. He wants to give them, and his employees, something different, something memorable. So the Australian staff who've flown 19 hours for a press conference get their treat at sundown: Branson in full celebrity mode on the roof of the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel. Reclining like a pasha...
...pictures of the first chapter attest, is not all that fictional), but that the characters’ thoughts are so relentlessly foregrounded that the rest of the work cowers behind them, reduced to obscurity by the intellectual blizzard. Gessen at times nails the details, as when he describes the standard Harvard lunch: “a huge bowl of green peas...a chicken parm sandwich, and...a cranberry-grapefruit mixture, which I’d patented.” But these glimpses of a fully realized literary world are all too often overshadowed by his characters’ ideational monologues...
...menacing.The novel’s sparse sentences and luscious imagery are reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid, who was Ganeshananthan’s English thesis advisor at Harvard. Ganeshananthan admits in her acknowledgments that Kinkaid’s “particular brand of meticulous attention continues to be the standard for which I strive,” and there are multiple moments when Ganeshananthan soars to the same heights of literary joy as her mentor. When Yalini describes her similarity to her Aunt Uma, Ganeshananthan’s prose takes off: “Uma was not there, not there...
...play in the freshman musical.US: I am Elias. I’m an island native. The castaways think their island is deserted, but then they find out that there’s a pretty advanced society there already. It’s kind of a twist from the standard castaway plot.RR: What’s your character’s native culture like?US: It parallels modern society more than you might think. It’s the middle of election season, there’s an unpopular war going on, and it’s very capitalist, consumer-driven...