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...Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (July 12): After Emeril got a TV series, I should have expected that crocodile hunter Steve Irwin, another star from a third-tier cable channel, would net a star vehicle. Don’t expect any grisly battles, though; the movie’s rated...
Merrill’s Henry Blodget, whose excesses have been uncovered by the Spitzer investigation, is emblematic of the current problems on Wall Street. Blodget, a man whose career mirrored the Internet bubble, was an Internet stock analyst at the second-tier firm CIBC Oppenheimer when he made a now famous prediction. Blodget correctly forecast in 1998 that the stock of Amazon.com, then trading at around $225, would hit $400 within 12 months. When the stock hit that target within months, a star was born and Blodget soon jumped to the more prestigious Merrill Lynch. By the time the Internet...
...have finally made it into the top tier of lightweight racing squads and it’s a blast to go out together and challenge anyone for 2000 meters,” said captain Robin Lockwood...
...reality that there is simply no space available. With careful planning, not only will Harvard find a place to put the scholars it attracts, but the space itself may attract scholars to Harvard. Especially in the sciences, new labs will help the University to compete with other top-tier institutions. These new classroom and laboratory facilities will directly benefit students, who will no longer be lotteried out of courses—or forced to meet in local churches—because of space constraints...
Monro became a fervent supporter of black education during his first years at Harvard and slowly came to believe that top-tier schools were reluctant to offer the kind of education that most underprivileged students needed...