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...bury the label that has always attached to the Chicago investor Sam Zell. He has been called the "grave dancer" because of his appetite for distressed or mismanaged assets, from real estate to railcars. Yet Zell manages to find an awful lot of life in dead assets--his net worth is estimated at $6 billion...
...with loans to repay and families to help support. “Hypothetically, I could do something without having to worry about how to support myself. I know you can only play the hand you’ve been dealt.” Family wealth is a reliable safety net; those who have never personally known poverty find it much easier to dismiss as a hardship. It is much easier to talk about overthrowing the system when one has never had to use it to climb...
...resort to Bush-bashing was Clinton's safety net in the Oct. 30 debate, the place she could go to deflect her opponents' attacks. But those attacks are likely to grow more intense as the campaign winds toward its Jan. 3 climax in the Iowa caucuses - and the questions of who Clinton is, what she really believes and whether the Democratic Party really wants to return to the pragmatic "balance" of Clintonism will be front and center. This is still a close campaign, at least in Iowa, where the traditionally undependable polls have Clinton with a lead over Obama...
...promise during the preseason. ONLY ROOM FOR ONEThe Crimson experienced a dramatic twist prior to last season: Kessler, entering her freshman year as a highly touted recruit from the Toronto area, arrived in Cambridge with her knee in a brace.The summer speculation was that Harvard would be loaded in net with the return of Martin from a successful rookie campaign and the addition of Kessler, one of the top youth goalies in Canada. But Kessler’s August injury, initially misdiagnosed, suggested it would be Martin’s show for the entire season. “I knew...
...Statistics do not reveal the full extent to which Meintel’s tenacity and hustle facilitate an effective offensive attack, and Harvard hopes that forcing defensemen to cope with such a prolific scorer will allow Meintel’s teammates to put more quality shots on net. “[Meintel] does a lot more than just score goals for us—he’s really an energy guy for us that draws a lot of penalties and really is a great forechecker,” says Crimson coach Ted Donato...