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...Economically I would say that the writers are penny-wise and pound-foolish,” Meyer said. “Culturally, they may have a point. It’s difficult to employ world-class portfolio managers in an academic setting...
...demonstrating his riflery skills at carnivals along the West Coast, Algren reluctanctly accepts an offer to train a modernizing Japanese army during the sweeping changes of the Meiji Renaissance. Soon after arriving in Tokyo, Algren is captured in battle by the rebel Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe), a fierce but predictably wise warrior committed to preserving the bushido, or samurai code of honor...
...lived “since I was five years old.” It’s a relatively light morning at The Crimson, with only one run of the daily newspaper on the docket, so Byrne is more chipper than usual. At least, when he cracks wise about how long it takes to print FM (“your job keeps me here until 11 a.m. usually”) he does it good naturedly, reveling in the fact that he won’t be running a 24-page magazine until at least the first week of February...
...change. “I wasn’t really happy with the academics,” Moore says. “They were not very challenging, and I was starting to think about what I was going to do after college.” And basketball-wise, she says, “I wasn’t playing as much as I wanted...
...Curriculum wise, the amount of focus AIDS receives at HMS wavers,” said Sarun Charumilind ’00, who is on the group’s fundraising committee. “We don’t learn about this issue in a formal way, and it’s hard to tell whether the attention AIDS gets in class is comparable to the political hotness of the issue...