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It is possible for an individual to influence individual stocks. But significantly influencing the overall market is basically impossible.

Readers had a range of reactions to an op-ed arguing that the Democrats have lost touch with the working class.

Data recently published by the New York Times supports the common assumption that excessive wealth significantly increases the likelihood that an individual may attend a selective private college, and Northeastern is no exception to this pattern. According to the Times’ research and data from Opportunity Insights, 52% of Northeastern’s student body belong to families with parents...

Instead of respecting teachers, people are trying to intimidate them. The result will be fewer people choosing this important profession.

A Soviet ‘Lord of the Rings’ Is Unearthed, Epic in Its Own Way Tolkien fans received an unexpected gift with the rediscovery of an all-but-forgotten 1991 production. They were also left with questions, like “why is Gollum wearing a lettuce on his head?” A screenshot from YouTube of the character Gollum as he appears in an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” that was broadcast on Russian television in 1991.Credit...YouTube April 10, 2021, 8:0...

Painfully slow and dizzyingly manic: Khraniteli, from 1991, has just been released on YouTube Credit: Youtube For some Russians, the best way to evoke their memories of the collapse of the Soviet Union is to show them footage not of Gorbachev but of Gandalf and Gollum. In 1991, during the dying days of the USSR, Leningrad Television broadcast Khraniteli (or “The Keepers”), a dramatisation of The Fellowship of the Ring – the first volume of J R R Tolkien’s fantasy epic The Lord of the R...