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...together to develop a Saturday Public Service Career Fair (as distinguished from a job or recruiting fair) early in the spring semester. We hope this first (annual) Public Service Career Fair will become a beacon for students looking toward public service and other careers in the not-for-profit sector, just as the Career Forum has become a beacon for students interested in consulting and investment banking...
However, the ability of manufacturers to flood markets represents a failure of law rather than a breakdown of individual morality in the private sector. If excess production of guns creates a clear public hazard, then the government has the responsibility to impose production ceilings on manufacturers and to watch more closely the transactions of legally licensed distributors and retailers...
...they come? On the stage they make less money, have to work harder and risk getting creamed by the critics in a rare sector of show biz where critics can still matter. A Short answer: "The theater," he says, "is the ultimate reconfirmation of why you even started out to be an actor." The Canadian-born comic began his career on the Toronto stage, appearing in shows like Godspell (with Gilda Radner) and You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown before moving to the U.S., where he became a chameleonlike star on SCTV and Saturday Night Live...
This schizophrenic stock market keeps offering us the chance to buy great companies at good prices, as one sector after another rapidly rotates from favored to hated. Now in the doghouse, for no good reason, are the banks. Two weeks ago, mutual funds and other big investors decided these stocks had become "must owns," given the Federal Reserve's new bias toward easier credit. Shares of the Chases and Citigroups were flying out the door. An index of bank stocks peaked in July at 932, then plummeted to 592 in early October before vaulting back...
...that smacks of opportunity. If we step away from the transient worry about whether the Fed will cut rates further when it meets this week, we can see that bank stocks are selling for substantially less than almost any other sector of the market. Tech, drugs and even oil shares trade at a much higher valuation, relative to expected earnings. Why? Because many bank loans have gone bad in Asia, Russia and Latin America, not to mention the Long Term Capital hedge fund...