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We like to follow a bullish or bearish trend. But the best investors sell when everyone’s buying, and buy when everyone’s selling.
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A conversation with the Chief Investment Strategist at Legg Mason Capital Management.
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The best communication happens naturally amongst friends, so Zappos encourages employees to spend time together outside of the office.
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Hsieh says he hires and fires people based on whether they fit with his company’s core values—independent of their potential value or job performance.
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“Would I want to hang out with these people if we weren’t forced to work together?” is a guiding barometer for the Zappos CEO.
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A conversation with the CEO of Zappos
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A conversation with the World Chess Champion, 1975-1985.
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Judith Light talks about a role she believes isn’t the highlight of her career is its own kind of “coming out.”
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“Any time a person comes out, it displays someone’s courage and bravery,” says the actress. Standing up and saying that you are different is “remarkable and terrifying.”
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The difference between nailing a scene and turning in a mediocre performance is all about “being present in the moment” while “really being outside of yourself.”
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Not getting the roles that she wanted right out of school sparked a personal crisis for Judith Light. It took a job as a soap opera understudy to launch her […]
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A conversation with the actor and activist
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If women ran the world, different things would be engineered and invented. Unfortunately, many female scientists get sidetracked.
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From our leakage radiation, an alien would be able to tell quite a bit about the planet, including the length of our day, the size of the planet, and even […]
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The potential detection of signals from outer space raises many questions. What’s the overarching plan? Who would speak on behalf of our planet? What would they say?
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Researchers at SETI are using radio telescopes to listen specifically for signals that are “obviously engineered”—something that nature, at least as far as we know, can’t produce.
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The board game has been a national pastime in Russia since well before the Bolshevik Revolution.
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The American grandmaster was an impulsive individualist who had an incapacitating fear of losing, says the man who became world chess champion when Fischer refused to show up at the […]
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The thirteenth world chess champion had an unrivaled mastery of opening-move theory and was unstoppable when he had the initiative. But “he was not so strong when his king was […]
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The Russian grandmaster admits that he found it boring to study chess openings.
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The twelfth world chess champion says that, even when things were bleak, he “never lost the will to fight.”
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Definitely, says Anatoly Karpov, if marketed correctly. That’s why the Russian grandmaster wants to run FIDE, the World Chess Federation.
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The media entrepreneur defends his online aggregation site Newser and explains his lofty alternate career plans.
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From the age of four, Anatoly Karpov saw great beauty in chess. He made the game his profession and was the world champion for a decade, from 1975 to 1985.
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If the weekly magazine is still being published 25 years from now, Michael Wolff will owe David Remnick a dinner.
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Once the paper begins charging for online content in January, the question will be: What does the New York Times become without its readers?
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“I can’t imagine why anyone would want to work for this guy,” says Michael Wolff of the Apple CEO.
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His first internet company tanked. So was Wolff nervous about launching Newser?
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The writer had a feeling of “immense relief that this quixotic enterprise of buying the magazine would not end up as my terrible fate.”
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Michael Wolff remembers his first time walking into the “depressing, smoke-filled” newsroom after he was hired—and knowing it wasn’t a place where he wanted to work.
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