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Granted, in a bear market almost all stocks fall. But how sure are you we're in for a bear market? Or that a good deal of the damage hasn't already been done? (The Dow is near its all-time high, but many lesser stocks are off 20% or more.) "Our Fund Timing Index has risen to its highest and most bullish level in history," reported a recent issue of Norman Fosback's Mutual Fund Forecaster, which looks for a 32% rise in the market over the next twelve months. Sure, Wall Street seems gloomy these days, says Fosback...
...ransom money -- "reward" is a euphemism -- may work, if it does not gum up the investigation with half the flakes and crazies from Boston to Miami. But it does not dispose of the ghastly possibility that one of the greatest of Vermeer's paintings (along with other things of lesser significance) may be destroyed by the thieves as too hot to handle...
...staff position accurately catalogues the ills afflicting the English Department (and, to a lesser degree, all Harvard departments) as a result of the University's hide-bound tenure system. Unfortunately, the staff does not carry the argument to its logical conclusion. The crisis in the English Department will not be solved simply by restructuring the Faculty bureaucracy. True reform will require abolishing the institution of tenure...
Asked yesterday about the decision to bring lesser charges against those arrested in the men's room, Harvard police Chief Paul E. Johnson said, "We're not taking a position that anything worse should have happened. Our only objective and aim is to stop certain inappropriate behavior...
DeVore says that some textbooks are ghostwritten by journalists, and marketed under the names of well-known scholars to improve national sales. Although he says he knows of no one at Harvard who would stoop to such a practice, he believes it is more common among "people at lesser-known universities...