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...hesitancy makes sense. For a handful of chosen ones to walk among us with a greater potential to create things of worth doesn’t mesh terribly well with our country’s democratic values, after all. New Yorker writer Malcolm Gladwell tapped into just this everyman conception of genius in last year’s bestselling pop science book, “Outliers.” Reaching the top levels of a chosen field, he explained, simply requires a combination of hard work and luck—with a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice, anyone...
...years, Chile’s economy has been bolstered by a spike in copper prices. As copper accounts for roughly 16.4 percent of the nation’s GDP, according to the Central Bank of Chile, the government was able to accumulate a financial cushion of around $21 billion worth of savings in sovereign wealth funds and a similar amount in central bank reserves, the New York Times reported. Such financial policies allowed Chile to announce a $4 billion stimulus package this January and provide fellowship funding to Chilean students at several foreign universities, including Harvard. The new agreement will...
...outdoor events that make up what is better known as a tailgate. For Harvard games though, due to a combination of cold weather and student lameness, the only real tailgating activities that occur outside the stadium will be run by crusty alumni and friends. It may be worth trying to mooch some nice booze and grub off of these reminiscing middle-aged men, but your best bet is probably hosting or attending a pregame in someone’s suite on campus. This is especially the case since all but this Friday’s game begin at around noon...
Palin's audience was a mostly sympathetic throng of high-flying executives and fund managers from more than 32 countries, responsible for some $10 trillion worth of assets among themselves. While they welcomed her support for strong free-market policies, some of the executives in the crowd were not entirely convinced. "[Palin] displayed a mixture of commonsense prudence and a bit of naiveté when it comes to finance," says a London-based fund manager (most delegates spoke anonymously due to the confidentiality policies of their companies). "Surely, we know now not all things are better left to the market...
...have suffered brain damage that removes emotions from their calculations cannot function. They can't make decisions, even simple ones. So we need our emotions to make sense of the world. But our emotions also can lead us astray - particularly when we encounter an exception to a lifetime's worth of rules...