My mother shut off topics that approached her well-defended borders of propriety. Her eyes would slowly rise above the lenses of her half glasses to meet the speaker’s. ‘Do I…
One word can have such distinct meanings that I never connect them. Consider the words ‘conversion’ and ‘redemption’, important in the vocabularies of Christians and the bond market. And then…
The Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing marked its 25th anniversary this month. Few conferences can claim justly to have changed their field – in this case, financial services –…
The time: 11:30 a.m., Friday, Nov. 21, 2014. The place: the CVS on Summer Street in Boston’s Downtown Crossing next to the Red Line station. The cast: A 68-year-old male…
MEGO Alert: My Eyes Glaze Over having heard about executives’ comp in financial services ever since the Reagan-Bush leveraged-buy-out boom, as probably do yours. So be warned: numbers below. But…
The election results, which at mid-afternoon seem foreboding, will be known when most see this post. As I distracted myself this afternoon, I happened across a couple of quotations attributed…
‘If God had meant us to vote,’ said the much missed folk singer and labor activist U. Utah Phillips, ‘He’d have given us candidates.’ On this, the pointedly funny…
Race horses, tracks and the people who give them life have fascinated me since I was 8. So it seemed fitting to launch the new site for The Bell.us with…
For a university like ours, which is … a major researcher in environment and alternative energy, we need to be able to put our hand on our heart when we…
A year ago, on Oct. 16, 2013, Brian Sweetland died when he fell as he walked his dogs. A wonderful exhibit at the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester…
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