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...Depending on your hometown, March may be a time when winter breaks, flowers burst into bloom, and trees come alive with the songs of birds. This is not the case at Harvard...
...Don’t expect spring to come any time soon. It’s still very much winter, and, to compound your despair, it’s also time for the midterms cycle to start again. Extracurriculars and classes both become more and more demanding...
...three branches of government. Bush ignores established law and subverts congressional legislation with signing statements. I half expected to hear him repeat his famous words "Bring 'em on" in response to the recent attempts, however feeble, by Congress and the courts to rein in his power. Gayle Bell Winter Park, Florida...
...around the corner, so long-term investors may want to think less about timing and more about diversification. Financial planners recommend allocating as much as 5% to emerging markets but generally no more, considering the risk (think Nigeria or Venezuela). When culling the world markets, Clark Winter, chief global investment strategist at Citigroup Global Wealth Management, looks for macroeconomic drivers. The big one historically has been U.S. monetary policy, and domestic interest rates still hold a lot of sway over what happens abroad...
...increasingly other factors, like the combination of low wages and high education levels in India and the migration of human talent to Singapore, determine where capital flows. Winter also points out that in markets where corporate structure remains cloudy--China is a prime example--investors can more safely tap some of the excitement by owning multinationals. "You don't have to buy local stocks to do this," he says. A quarter of Procter & Gamble's sales come from emerging markets, for example, and China alone accounts for 14% of revenues at Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. Buying more-established...