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...beautiful in their own right. Here, Yoshimasa and a group of like-minded aesthetes would meet to compose poetry and perform that most quintessentially Japanese of arts, the tea ceremony. (Today, any object of the tea ritual from that time, even the humblest bamboo ladle, fetches a fabulous sum at auction if an association with Yoshimasa can be established.) An accomplished poet and great patron of Noh theater, Yoshimasa explored every artistic field known in his day and even created a few: he played a crucial role in the emerging art of flower arrangement and dabbled in the blending...
While Harvard is laying off librarians, it’s paying six other employees—fund managers—a total of $107.5 million this year. Wrap your mind around those numbers. Six people. Over a hundred million dollars. That’s a sum so large it’s hard to fathom...
...just $25,000, using sophisticated software that allows the firm to buy fractions of shares. Anyone considering separate accounts should have resources to open at least three to spread risk across different funds, which with most separate-accounts managers will require up to $300,000. That's no small sum. But it's not J.P. Morgan material either, and given the abusive practices we've seen at mutual funds (trading schemes that harm long-run investors and hefty, complex fees), anyone who qualifies should take a look...
...Sum that would be allotted to each of Britain's 58.8 million citizens if the value were divided equally...
Fifty years ago, when a young trucker called Elvis Presley cut his first disk at the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, he shelled out $4 for the privilege. These days, the studio charges more than twice that sum just for a tour of the premises. Aspiring rock gods pay thousands of dollars to make a record. (Weird hairstyles are extra.) If you've got that kind of money lying around and are hankering to lay down that song you wrote on your battered guitar at college, here's the tab at some of the world's top facilities. London...