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...great teacher and investor with a gentle and loving disposition, Sir John Templeton, who died on July 8 at 95, pioneered value investing beyond U.S. shores long before global investing became commonplace, and that made him a financial legend. His success lay in patiently waiting for prices to reach "points of maximum pessimism." In addition to leading me into global emerging markets by asking me to manage the first Templeton emerging-markets fund, he taught me and others how to become investors by pursuing long-term goals and undervalued securities. He taught us that in order to find the best...
Pete, the genius Basketball coach and teacher who died on Nov. 17 at 93, was the most lovable man I've ever met. In 1959 his University of California, Berkeley, team beat my West Virginia squad by a single point in the national championship game. The following year, I had the honor of playing for Pete in the Olympics. We won gold, and I realized how special he was. He just had a way of lifting everyone around...
...Obama. Tuesday was solemn. Obama took time to honor his late grandmother Madelyn Dunham, his mother's mother, whom he called "toot," his version of the traditional Hawaiian word for grandma, "tutu." He and his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, a history teacher at local La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls, scattered Dunham's ashes at Lanai Lookout in the afternoon after a private service at a church in the Honolulu neighborhood of Nuuanu. Dunham died Nov. 2 at the age of 86, two days before her grandson's victory in the general election. (Obama visited her the week before...
...Pakula-Mulligan tandem's biggest hit was the 1967 Up the Down Staircase, based on the Bel Kaufman book about a New York City teacher's attempts to connect with her hard-hided students. The movie landed its leading lady, Sandy Dennis, on the covers of TIME and Newsweek the same week. After a Gregory Peck Western, The Stalking Moon, the producer-director team split. As it happened, Pakula became a director with a broader, deeper palette and somewhat greater success than his old partner (Klute, The Parallax View, All the President's Men, Sophie's Choice, Presumed Innocent...
...furious, I'm outraged and I'm disgusted. If Arne Duncan cannot guarantee our protection, he should not have that job." - Marilyn Stewart, president of the Chicago teacher's union, after two laptops containing the names and social security numbers of 40,000 teachers were stolen from the district, Chicago Tribune, April...