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Why has the market soared? Low inflation, cost-conscious management and endless global opportunities for U.S. companies have played a huge role. Those things will persist. But our limitless affection for technology, blind faith in index funds and grossly underappreciated sense of stock-market risk are part of the equation...
At 13 he enrolled at the Sherbourne School in Dorset and there showed a flair for mathematics, even if his papers were criticized for being "dirty," i.e., messy. Turing recognized his homosexuality while at Sherbourne and fell in love, albeit undeclared, with another boy at the school, who suddenly died...
Boston society was stongly invested in the fate of the student-gentry and their new haunt--the social clubs--as they had been with the Gold Coast. One article found in the scrapbook of a 1903 graduate, George Stillman, proclaimed in the headline, "Student Stunts at Harvard!-Tests Required of...
The Doveys always encouraged communication within the family--be it nonverbal, conversational or over e-mail. Lindi's parents take their roles very seriously and can clearly articulate their philosophy of raising children, a philosophy that reflects an optimism about human potential. "If you bring someone into the world, you...
Why is this relevant? Children share what author Jonathan Kozol refers to as the "equality of innocence." We know kids are not responsible for their situation because their youth exempts them from personal responsibility. Explanations we give for their poverty sound very common-sensical as a result: They are homeless...