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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Long Term Capital suddenly lose money after years of winning? Short answer: the fund's investing formulas were blindsided by the financial meltdown that has spread so rapidly from Asia to Russia and Latin America. In essence, Meriwether's computers were programmed with historical relationships among various global bond yields and other financial instruments. They looked for discrepancies in those relationships and bet that they would return to their historical norms. But the deepening global crisis caused a flight to the safety of U.S. Treasury bonds, which drove up prices that Meriwether's computers said should be falling. The resulting...
While still at PCS, Riegel accepted roles on various television shows, including "As the World Turns," "Guiding Light," and "Late Night with Conan O' Brien...
...private investment firm of Nobel laureate Robert C. Merton, Baker professor of business, last week lost more than $100 billion that were invested in various worldwide financial markets, the Associated Press reported...
Annabella Sciorra has no room to do mediocre work, for her inscrutable character dooms any possibility for a good performance from the start. In various scenes she is a beautiful romantic, a warm mother, an edgy and depressed artist, a lunatic and finally a resident of hell. None of her various incarnations seem remotely connected to another, and in each she is given an outlandish haircut that does her acting for her. When she has the severe, cropped look of Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction, you know that tragedy is imminent. We never know why Robin Williams would risk hell...
...several quite concrete ways, a worse person now than when I came here as a first-year. I'm ashamed to think of the various ethical defense mechanisms I've worked out for sweeping little lapses under the rug in the name of ambition. I--along with just about everyone I know, it seems--have never really accepted that what is right stops well short of what is permissible. I try, but I've never been able to entirely silence the little voice that says "You know, if you switched your concentration for just this semester, you'd get into...