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...college graduates. Buffett doesn't need to require a college degree because what he is looking for can be measured in ways that are even more concrete and downright mathematical: an ability to generate large returns on investments. Why would any potential employer care if a gifted stock picker had gone to college...
...Jones stock price languished? It's a long story. The company took a well-deserved hammering for its failure to dominate the desktop analysis business, opening the door for Michael Bloomberg. That fiasco had no sooner passed into history than the entire newspaper sector began to sag. Dow Jones hasn't had a fair shot in years to show how strong its core business might become...
...What Iraq needed were Arabists and Foreign Service officers who understood the country's tribal allegiances, or who at least knew a Sunni from a Shia. What CPA seemed to be getting were people anxious to set up a Baghdad stock exchange, try out a flat-tax system, and impose other elements of a lab-school democratic- capitalist social structure. One of my officers returned from a trip to Iraq a month or two after CPA had taken over and told me, "Boss, that place runs like a graduate school seminar, none of them speaks Arabic, almost nobody's ever...
...work on “The Condemned,” Austin had nothing but praise for the film’s performers and creators, especially co-star Vinnie Jones, best known as a soccer player and tough-guy supporting character in “Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels...
...first woman to be tenured in the economics department. There have been two more since.“It’s very unfortunate that the percentage of tenured women in top economic departments in general is as low as it is,” says James H. Stock, the chair of Harvard’s economics department.Goldin is also the director of the American Economy program at the National Bureau of Economic Research.She plays down the potential difficulties of being a female academic.“I wouldn’t be here if I faced...