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Finally, we regretfully must comment on the woeful showing of one Fidelity Investments. The company’s pen is a standard Bic, with the only customization being a green cap and Fidelity’s name and logo on the side. Fidelity, if you want to recruit us, don’t give us the kind of pen we steal from Holiday Inn. You’re an investment firm. How good can you being at making money when your pen is a cheap piece of crapsmanship? You’ll face our wrath for eternity. (Unless you give...
...Over Their Heads TIME's notebook item on the torrential rains and flooding in Bombay [Aug. 8] realistically portrayed the woeful state that India finds itself in as it tries to compete with China. Politicians in India are constantly asserting their resolve to put Bombay on a par with Shanghai, without even giving a thought to reality. The fact that a day's rainfall can paralyze the economic hub of India speaks volumes about the complete lack of basic infrastructure and disaster-management techniques in this country. The government machinery was totally overwhelmed by the floods and started providing relief...
...more of the same in late January, when questions surfaced regarding Harvard’s post-exam track record, a woeful 2-8-2 over the last six years. Welch was more than ready to share his feelings on the matter...
...Crimson penalty kill—which had suffered a woeful 42 percent conversion rate just three nights before—had smothered the Boston College power play too easily...
...Staunch Soldiers "Under the Gun" [may 9], on the severe problems of the Philippine military, was timely. The Armed Forces of the Philippines (A.F.P.) need a miracle to overcome the problems you described?"corruption, bad housing, woeful medical care"?but I do not agree that the A.F.P. has a morale problem. Poor equipment, yes, but not low morale. I was in the A.F.P. for 30 years, and I know that the Filipino soldier is highly motivated and fights without grumbling, even if he is short of equipment. Sad to say, the revolving-door policy of the President in appointing...