Word: superstars
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...turmoil has some questioning not just hedge-fund performance of late, but also the industry's essential business model. Hedge funds employ a dizzying array of investment strategies, from reliance upon superstar managers who preside like Delphic oracles to the use of byzantine computer algorithms that pick out minute pricing discrepancies and take advantage of them. The profits on these transactions may be small, but funds multiply them many times over by leveraging their investors' capital. This strategy can go awry - as it did spectacularly in 1998 when Long Term Capital Management, a giant U.S. fund whose founders included...
...seniors work their balls off,” says freshman forward Andrew Van Nest. “People like Pusar work so hard. The little weaknesses that he has, you don’t even see them. He feels like a superstar on the court. Seeing that is contagious...
...fourth on the team in points (27, on 10 goals and 17 assists), good enough for 12th in the nation among rookies. She also thrived under the pressure of her first postseason and was named to the ECAC All-Tournament Team. But this season, with the loss of defensive superstar Caitlin Cahow ’07-’08 to graduation, Ryabkina is being asked to move back to the blue line.“It’s something new, and it’s so different from playing forward,” she admits...
Eggleston is what you might call a bohemian of independent means, a descendant of the Mississippi Delta planter aristocracy who was also for a time the lover of Viva, the Andy Warhol superstar. Since the mid-1960s, he has lived, comfortably and at full throttle, in Memphis, Tenn...
...urban music scene, from his beginnings playing piano on Lauryn Hill’s “Everything is Everything,” to his signing with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Music label in 2003, to the multiple collabos that followed with that Chi-town superstar. His work with artists like Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, and Will.I.Am shape a hip-hop resume that few others can touch, but his solo efforts have been decidedly less exciting than the tracks on which he plays the supporting role. Legend tends to come across as a baby-faced, heart-on-sleeve...