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...Sept. 15, the Dow fell 504 points. Pretty drastic. The next day it gained 142 points. The lesson: these are volatile days and weeks, and timing the market is a crapshoot, even for the pros. The ability of ordinary investors to move in and out of investments at the right moment tends to be pretty bad anyway. A longitudinal study by the research firm Dalbar shows that as mutual-fund investors increase the length of time they hold their funds, they do better relative to stock and bond indexes. "Our emotions are backward-looking, but the market is always about...
Greenberg joined the ranks of huddled pilgrims who lined up every day for visiting hours. (One morning he took artichokes to Sally. "Art makes you choke, Father," she said. "You should give it up. It's a false god who causes you nothing but pain.") As Sally's life fell apart from the inside out, Greenberg's began collapsing from the outside in. He fought with his wife, Sally's stepmother. He drank. As a freelance writer, he had no health insurance; the first bill for Sally's meds came...
...failures? France's handling of the Beijing Olympics was a clear one. Sarkozy made himself a prisoner of a contradictory logic by trying to appear dedicated to human rights without endangering the economic interest of French firms. France fell between two stools and became an easy target for Chinese assertions that its position lacked coherence. Another failure was France's initial neglect of Germany's sensitivities toward Sarkozy's ambitious Mediterranean project...
...participated in it—about the manufactured controversy between creationism and evolution. The article was with .Dr. Kenneth R. Miller, and I came to Harvard and spent a couple of days here. I was kind of interested in studying at the time, and I just fell in love with the place when I got here. I made some really amazing connections with professors in the music department, and they encouraged me to apply...
Despite a promising start and continued efforts throughout the contest, the women’s volleyball team fell to Boston College last night 3-1 in Chestnut Hill. In a game characterized by constant back-and-forth action, the Crimson (1-4) edged out the Eagles (5-5) in the first set before dropping the ensuing three. Despite the loss, the squad was able to take away some positives from the game. “You have to look at the points in a game,” senior Katherine McKinley said. “A win or a loss...