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...popularity. American Funds is a dominant provider of funds sold through financial advisers and has used that network to stoke its growth, as opposed to Fidelity, where only a portion of its funds are sold through advisers and which traditionally has relied on good performance so its funds stand...
...seems so alarmed by the outbreak of avian flu [Oct. 17]. Maybe it's time we stopped and looked at the way we raise animals. Seven to nine chickens crammed into a cage the size of a microwave oven is a virus time bomb waiting to explode. Caged chickens stand in their own feces and are never able to stretch their wings. Many have been debeaked, and some have chronic pain and infections. We should ban the inhumane standards of factory farming. I believe that avian flu is the quiet revenge of those millions of chickens, ducks and geese...
...it’s time for all of us to stand up for those who have come under attack for exercising their freedom as faculty, as students, or as citizens. Because it might as well...
Harvard’s House community, as it stands, is rather pitiful. Think of where the Houses stand on the ladder of communal allegiance. At the top lie a hodgepodge of athletic teams, blockmates, social clubs, and tightly-knit student groups. Then come second-tier student groups, after that cultural or religious affiliations, and, only then, the Houses. One is almost embarrassed to introduce a friend by (merely) claiming a shared House. Whereas at Oxford and Cambridge—the universities upon which our system was modelled—students are still identified as residents of certain colleges, at Harvard...
...Harvard students knew the strictures seniors face, they wouldn’t stand for it,” Reeves said...