Sunday was a good day for devoted readers of the “Weddings/Celebrations” pages of the New York Times.

There were stories, some brief, some longer, of 41 unions, the coming together of a whole lot of lawyers, some doctors, and at least one freelance hiking and music columnist.

Analysis of the reports indicates that a trend identified in the mid-90s by David Brooks (before he became a Times columnist) is alive and well.

The recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Michael Mukasey to be U.S. attorney general might have passed for a meeting of the Yale Law School alumni association.

Mukasey, class of 1967, was introduced to the committee by Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., also Yale Law class of ‘67.

As baseball managers know, life isn’t always fair.

You put the team together, you make the key decisions, and the people who work for you make the big bucks.
The analogy isn’t exact, but something like that is happening at the U.S. Supreme Court, which opened its 2007-08 term on Monday.

The nine justices make the decisions. And for this they get paid fairly well, $212,000 for Chief Justice John Roberts, $203,000 for the eight associate justices.

After failing to get into Harvard Business School in 1950, a desperate Warren Buffett applied to Columbia, writing directly to then-professor David L. Dodd.

Buffett was accepted, and Dodd was so impressed by him that he invested in Buffett’s company. Nearly 60 years later, Dodd’s daughter, Barbara Dodd Anderson, has decided to give a large portion of the profits to George School, a Quaker high school in Bucks County, Pa.

While other funds struggle through the mortgage crisis, a hedge fund founded by former Harvard Management Co. CEO Jack R. Meyer is flourishing.

Meyer and former Harvard colleagues run Convexity Capital Management, which makes trading bets that benefit from volatility. The fund, started last year, had disappointing early results. But recent market swings have brought a turnaround.

Mark Zuckerberg has spent much of his time fending off potential buyers of his company, Facebook. Next week, he’ll be defending against plaintiffs who claim he stole their idea for the web site.

In late 2002, Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, classmates at Harvard, began developing a social-networking website to be called Harvard Connection or connectu.com. They recruited Zuckerberg to help program the site, but Zuckerberg instead founded what is now known as Facebook.