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...Other A-list acts, such as Westlife, have voiced interest in working with Martin. But he says he won't just take any big-name project. He recently rebuffed one American singer with a stellar late-'90s track record. "I turn them down when I don't feel I can contribute anything," he says. "If they already have a great thing going, I don't see the point of going and messing with...
...attracted by Iowa's low cost of living. But that part of Vilsack's plan has run into a prairie fire of opposition. Part of it is prejudice. But that's not the whole story. Iowans have reason to be leery because of unplanned immigration in the mid-'90s, when thousands of Hispanics came to Iowa communities like Marshalltown to work in meat-packing plants. Marshalltown (pop. 26,000) became 12% Hispanic overnight. The monocultural town was totally unprepared. Schools struggled to cope with non-English speakers. A methamphetamine industry sprang up, which police blamed on Mexican gangs. Most...
...proliferation of mid-'90s movies in that list shows, I suppose, that often with favorite music moments it isn't the quality of the music that counts, it's where you are in time when you watch the movie. Ah, to be 16 and to have music mean everything again. That Thing You Do! is perhaps the best movie made about one-hit wonders, and it has one of my favorite break-up moments in a movie. Liv Tyler (as Faye) to Jonathon Schaech (as Jimmy): "I have wasted thousands and thousands of kisses on you.... Shame...
STAYING POWER The grass is always greener in the other mutual fund, and investors are jumping funds 47% faster than they did four years ago. The average holding period is down from 5.5 years to 2.9. In the '90s, performance chasers poured $91 billion into funds after they peaked. Result: bad. Leapfroggers paid a 20% penalty in performance, says a recent study...
Cumulative returns in the '90s...