Jane Austen, the secondborn daughter in a family of five boys and two girls, was very close to her sister older Cassandra.

There is subtle thought, even profound thought, not so much in the working out of the plots as in the selection and forestaging of such humorous situations as make the plots work themselves out.

Much of this year’s letter was devoted to Mr. Fink’s belief that a focus on environmental, social and corporate governance issues — E.S.G., for short — does not conflict with making money.

Treivus has pointed out that the anentropy, apart from a constant factor (the universal gas constant) is equal to the chemical affinity for one componenent in a themodynamic system.