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...different kind of luxury, I think. I know the people whose artwork is on my walls--they're not the old masters. I shop at Target. We eat at Wendy's. Even though we have a lot and I feel very blessed, we are basically the same people we were when we first started out and made, between us, $28,000 a year...
...filmmaking, Boll admits he's an easy target for critics, though he says he can?t stop making video game movies because of pressure from the international financiers who bankroll his films. "I hope that at least a few people will not try to be trendy in trashing Boll," he says. " I hope a few people start focusing on the movie more if they?re writing about a movie, or if they?re writing about me they at least write about Boll?s fight of the situation, so that I?m not a complete retard." But, he admits, "I have...
...me—we have two sophomores in the middle and then I’m on the outside,” Tully says. “I’d be lying if I said I didn’t think we had a little bit of a target on our chest after everybody else in the league saw that we lost Matt, [but] the two young guys who we have have really matured pretty quickly...
...college admissions process confounds even the brightest students. The year long process of marketing oneself, claiming that each target school is the “favorite,” and then finally settling on the “right” choice can easily lead to disillusionment and frustration. Getting rid of early action will ease these daunting barriers, but the process cannot be truly meritocratic as long as preferences are given to alumni and athletes.The complex admissions process supposedly distinguishes the qualified from the unqualified, the very best from the merely very, very good. The current process, however...
...return for the same period, beating Harvard’s by 2.7 percentage points. Both universities handily outpaced the S&P 500 index, which registered an 8.5 percent return over the same period. “The most important issue is, did we meet the University’s target, which is to maintain the value of the endowment and take into account distributions and inflation?” El-Erian said in a phone interview. “Yes, we came in at double that amount.” HMC’s performance was particularly strong in emerging...