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...left years earlier. In 2005, HMC’s legendary CEO Jack R. Meyer left the company with 30 other employees in tow to start his own hedge fund after enduring heated criticism for what some saw as excessive company compensation. Meyer, a 15-year veteran of HMC, had grown the endowment from $4.7 billion to $26 billion, achieving an annualized average return rate of 15.9 percent over his last decade there. He was succeeded by Mohamed A. El-Erian, an emerging markets bond expert and former economist for the International Monetary Fund, who rebuilt HMC’s internal...
...that could turn out tanks. The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor buzzed with boffins working on government contracts, and in 1948, the campus had 21,000 students enrolled - or a fifth of the total number of students at every university in France. Two years earlier, a veteran editor of the Detroit Free Press wrote, without irony, "Detroit has been hailed as Detroit the Dynamic, Detroit the Wonder City...
...Tonight Show. Created as a 90-minute catchall variety show in 1954, The Tonight Show formed a template for late-night TV that everyone from Arsenio Hall to Jimmy Kimmel has since followed: witty banter, famous guests and eccentric sidekicks. Its first M.C., talk-show veteran Steve Allen, gave way just three years later to the unpredictable Jack Paar. In 1962, Paar left the show in the hands of a 36-year-old game-show host, Johnny Carson, who turned The Tonight Show from a success into a legend. (At one point, it accounted for 17% of NBC's revenue...
...Beier Ko has seen it all as a member of the Harvard women’s tennis team. She’s been the eager freshman, sidelined by injury on a team that bulldozed its way to the Ivy League title in 2006. She’s been the veteran on a rebuilding squad that floundered to a 2-17 mark last year. And in 2009, Ko was the leader of an extraordinary story of resurgence. As the undisputed No. 1 player on the Crimson (13-8, 6-1 Ivy), Ko went undefeated in the Ancient Eight...
Whenever Berlusconi reaches a new high - or low - I make a point of checking with veteran La Repubblica columnist Filippo Ceccarelli. "Even if you think he's a scoundrel," says Ceccarelli, "a scoundrel creates attraction, popularity. There's a reason people go to see movies about figures like him. When the electorate is really just an audience, he continues...