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...Hermann Trophy, the most prestigious individual award in men’s Division I soccer, placing Akpan as one of the top 15 players in the country.Past recipients of the Hermann Trophy include American soccer-greats Claudio Reyna and Brad Friedel. “We kind of expect this sort of thing from Andre, so it wasn’t much of a surprise,” co-captain Michael Fucito says. “But we’re glad he’s getting the recognition he deserves.”Nobody knows Akpan’s ability...
...classmate of mine who was the person we thought would be President of the United States. He committed suicide. That led to a book about my father, since my father crept into the first book. Sometimes the memoir is painful to write, but then, I haven't written the sort of memoir that seems to be the style in the U.S. now, which I often characterize as an "atrocity arms-race." With the one about my father, I kept wondering why I was doing this. My father, for most of his working life, was a grocer in Kansas City...
...they get too big and unmanageable. Yet with the price of stocks plummeting and an onslaught of investors asking for their money back, many funds aren't nearly the size they once were - so they're taking on fresh investors. A number of portfolio managers, especially the value-conscious sort, are also seeing cheap stocks all over the place and want extra money to buy in. One of the reasons Longleaf Partners reopened earlier this year was that its managers had identified some $1.5 billion worth of securities they wanted to buy. (Read a brief history...
...also worth asking what sort of effect redemptions are having on the fund itself. Funds that buy and sell the stocks of large companies should have a fairly easy time getting out of positions, says Kinnel, but funds that focus on less-liquid sectors can wind up in a vicious cycle of having to sell holdings at fire-sale prices. There are a number of reopening high-yield bond funds; those might be worth staying away from for the moment. (Read about Hedge Funds: How the Smart Money Looked Dumb...
...Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s address the other day. Singh is an old, mild-mannered academic—a policy wonk in the sort of rough political climate that would normally eat people like him for breakfast. His speech after the attacks was criticized for appearing meek and helpless, and his critics are probably right. What I see though, is a man wary of the same vicious cycle of Pakistan-baiting, worsening cross-border relations, and “tough security measures” that generate the sort of hatred that breeds even more terrorists. He knows...