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...cool-headed investors out there who have seen these bumps before and are confident the market will come back eventually. But that has a way of taking years, even without a crisis of ethical confidence. Stocks didn't return to their 1929 levels until 1940; they took 30 years, till 1996, to return to the peak reached in 1966. Many stocks still aren't cheap, third quarters are often painful, and the bears, at least, think there's more bad news to come...
...characteristics of the natural and manmade worlds. From those thousands, Arthus-Bertrand has chosen an evocative 155, enlarged them to more than 2 m wide, weatherproofed them and assembled them in a free, outdoor exhibition entitled "Earth from the Air: A Photographic Portrait of Our Planet." On display till late September in the east garden of London's Natural History Museum, the exhibition will travel around Britain. With duplicate prints, it is also running in France, Poland, Sweden and Germany and is due shortly in Norway, Russia, Hungary and Lebanon. But Arthus-Bertrand's work is about much more than...
Kates also worked persistently to get the job he wanted. In the spring of his senior year at Wesleyan University, the Bain consulting firm rejected his interview request. He immediately wrote back, telling them they would regret their mistake. “It ain’t over till it’s over,” he wrote, quoting Yogi Berra. He ultimately got the interview and a position...
Many naysayers wrote off this year’s Harvard women’s hockey team as a wait till next year kind of club due to the absence of its Olympic athletes. But the members of the team played as if this was their year, putting together a fine season, capturing a Beanpot Championship and raising expectations even higher for the future...
...returns home to help his dying mother. But mom is only pretending; she's a crook too, and wants sonny boy to fix up her house so she can settle the family debts. In a town where every transaction is negotiated with a handshake (you don't let go till you've agreed on a price) and the mayor is a penny-ante Vito Corleone, no one can be trusted, so no one is trusting?including the ex-con's 11-year-old son. The boy's education in moral larceny is the final lesson in this bracingly acerbic amorality...