Word: start
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...manager Jonathon S. Jacobson took home over $10 million, leaving soon after to start Highfields Capital, a high-stakes investment firm that specializes in hedge funds. Harvard committed at least $5 million to his new firm...
Harvard was hurt this year by its inability to go all-out for venture capital funds. These funds invest in start-ups and had what HMC President Jack R. Meyer called "a great year...
Indeed if the Crimson wants to do well in the Ivy League this year, which it has the capability of doing, the Harvard frontcourt players need to start using their height to their advantage. They need to be aggressive on the boards at both ends, meeting the ball rather than letting it come to them. When they have the ball on offense, they need to take it back up strong...
...almost feel that if the Nobel Prize were conferred on Jacques Derrida, he'd start talking like Bill Cosby on 'Picture Pages.' Laureates become the public faces of literature, and they start acting like publicizers instead of writers and scholars: what results can be something as banal and cliche-ridden as Nadine Gordimer's regrettable new release, Living in Hope and History...
...next stop on their magical mystery tour? Soul. Not James-Brown-soul, although the drawn-out, reverb ad infinitum song endings the band took to performing at the Roxy do recall the virtuoso rock-outs that end so many soul anthems. This was soul as in a little jump start, an extra pumping in the veins...