Every time I fly it makes me want my own balloon

Buffett’s been faced with a high-class problem in recent years: Too much cash, and too few opportunities.

Elizabeth said: I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

Ms. Biles ended her sponsorship with Nike this year and moved to Athleta, telling The Wall Street Journal that with the smaller brand, “it wasn’t just about my achievements, it’s what I stood for and how they were going to help me use my voice and also be a voice for females and kids.”

“It’s a very pressured situation to be sponsored traditionally in track and field — it’s about numbers if you don’t perform, reductions and all of these things,” Ms. Felix, who will compete in the Tokyo Games, said in an interview. With Athleta, she added, “I felt like I had more value as a person, and that was something I hadn’t experienced before.”

Several of Mr. Kaplan’s colleagues harbor similar concerns. They are worried that the housing boom could end up looking like a bubble, one that threatens financial stability. And some fret that the central bank’s big bond purchases could be helping to inflate it.

Professional running is caught in the middle of a bona fide fairness crisis. Athletes’ performances are shaped by a dizzying array of factors, both legal and illegal, that have little to do with tradition or any supposed values of equal competition. The result, for anyone who actually wants to enjoy these races, is brain-scrambling.

And here’s a truth: Morning people fizzle. They front-load the day, they burn all their energy before 10 o’clock, and the remaining hours are just a kind of higher zombiedom. By mid-afternoon, a morning person is wan and sugar-starved. But you non–morning people get stronger