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...Tick Tock," by David Warsh at Economic Principals "Should Harvard University president Lawrence Summers travel this week to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as he usually does, he'll find that the hottest item in the snowy little Alpine village is the international edition of Institutional Investor — the one with the cover story, 'How Harvard Lost Russia: The inside story of what happened when the enormous power and resources of the United States government were put in the wrong hands.'" [Read the Institutional Investor story here...
...honest, at least half of girl time is spent on guy chat—we analyze what really makes them tick, the goal of their game, the size of their… heart. Beware the chap trap: they take over conversation whether at the table or not. Which means it doesn’t matter that we neither rely upon their clubs nor look to them for cash. In the end, we actually need, might even bond over, all that confusion they provide...
...ticked “other” on a bunch of those forms, because I’m of mixed race descent,” Allen A.T. Ewalt ’07 said. “Notably, though, not the common app. That one allowed you to tick multiple boxes...
...TIME poll, 27% of respondents think the economy will deteriorate next year, while 26% feel it will improve. Some 38% said they are spending less this season, while 15% said they are spending more. Those mixed messages have economists puzzling over just what's making the consumer tick this holiday season. But they learn more about the science of shopping all the time, and a close look reveals how we are mustering the fortitude to spend our way through the economy's cross-currents...
...want to understand what makes China tick, ask the businessmen who spend their days immersed in its primordial soup of capitalism and corruption. Their war stories have spawned a booming genre of non-fiction, in which the latest entrant is James McGregor's One Billion Customers. McGregor, who went to the mainland as a journalist but changed tracks in 1994 to become the China head of Dow Jones, dispenses his wisdom through case studies?mostly of how things can go wrong. The story of an investment bank created by Morgan Stanley and the China Construction Bank, for example, shows...