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...think I haven't tried to poach eggs because I want to keep them special. As a kid, I'd wake up excited whenever my grandmother was in town, knowing she'd prepare two perfectly poached eggs for me--dark yolk oozing across shiny soft whites, soaking into lightly toasted bread--something my mom never got right. This was Jewish suburbia in the '70s; a decent poached egg was as close as we ever got to a madeleine...
...sure, eliminating early admission is not a risk-free endeavor. Other schools that keep early admissions programs may be able to poach top-notch candidates who wish to learn their fate a few months earlier. But the potential costs are worth the benefits, even to schools without Harvard’s reputation that use early admission to lure top students...
Confronted with this evolving landscape, hedge funds have had to grow up. You can see it in the way managers trek to Washington for Capitol Hill meet-and-greets. You can see it in the way big-name banks like Morgan Stanley and Citigroup poach existing shops and expand their hedge-fund practices. You can see it in the run-up of bloated, billion-dollar-plus firms. You can see it in how hedgies talk about their industry as if it is an industry, and not an unrelated mishmash of investment strategies...
...people, shall not perish from the earth.” I am well aware it was a cliché, but my breath still caught in my throat. Afterwards, my friends and I strolled across the street to the National Cemetery. It was hot and we walked slowly, trying to poach some information from the group ahead of us that had shelled out $45 for a guide. We snapped photos of the gaudy monuments, but our eyes kept returning to the long arcs in the grass. These were rows of marble blocks, each carved with a number...
This $50 toaster will simultaneously brown your bread and poach an egg in the attached heating tray, producing a tasty breakfast sandwich in just four minutes...