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...Prop 98-guaranteed 40 percent of the budget directed to an ineffective—and ever-growing—education bureaucracy, and the teachers’ unions it benefits. And, by law, no governor can raise revenue by modernizing the Prop 13-mandated property tax unfairness that leaves Warren Buffett paying a lower rate on his beach house than a janitor does on his apartment...
...shotgun marriage between Sears and Kmart is the brainchild of Kmart chairman and maverick investor Edward Lampert. A billionaire finance whiz who counts David Geffen and Michael Dell as clients and Warren Buffett as his idol, Lampert took control of Kmart when it came out of bankruptcy 18 months ago. Since then Lampert, 42, who also happened to be Sears' largest single shareholder through his ESL Investments, has turned Kmart into a cash cow, albeit a shrinking one. Although critics describe his moves as short-term fixes, he reduced inventory, slashed costs, limited discounts and sold off some of Kmart...
...Harvard, Bennett ran track and cross country and contributed to the Harvard Independent and Harvard Magazine, he said. But he called his “most meaningful experience” taking a course called the Uses of History, taught by Warren Professor Ernest R. May and Dillon Professor Richard E. Neustadt at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Bennett became a case writer for them, and May served as his thesis advisor...
There are a handful of iconic figures in the music industry who seem unstoppable; guys like Santana or James Brown who at once cut live and studio albums and record tracks with other artists while watching their sales and recognition rise. Warren Haynes, the mastermind behind gritty blues-rock icons Gov’t Mule, is the latest of these musical renaissance men. Apart from his work in Mule, Haynes has cemented his legend with a burgeoning solo career and the contribution of his inimitable guitar style to tours with The Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends and The Allman Brothers...
...ostensible theme of the symposium was “Surface, Space and Interface,” chosen in part to dovetail with the Charles Warren Center for American History’s current focus on the built environment. However, the presenters responded to this broad directive in myriad ways, often bringing in exciting tangential interests...