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Such Olympian angst may be moot. IOC insiders believe Rio's bid is gaining favor (South America has never hosted an Olympics). Around the Rings, an American publication that exclusively covers the Olympic movement, tagged Rio as the favorite in its final ?Power Index? ahead of decision day. ?Rio has been able to deliver an emotional edge to its appeal that other bids haven?t matched,? says Around the Rings editor Ed Hula. Perhaps the President can up the ante. After insisting that health care business would prevent him from trekking to Copenhagen to personally lobby...
...this, I thought my ears needed cleaning. You see, FPA New Income is a bond fund - a very successful one. The mutual-fund raters at Morningstar named Atteberry and his co-manager and boss, Robert Rodriguez, 2008's fixed-income managers of the year. Yet Atteberry sees only trouble ahead. "I've got a bull market in bonds that's unsustainable," he contends. "It might last another six months. It might last another year. Is it going to last another three to five years? I don't think...
Atteberry is hoping to navigate the minefield ahead by holding only bonds that come due soon, which are less sensitive to changes in interest rates (but also have a lower yield than longer-dated bonds). He may ask FPA New Income's board for permission to increase the fund's limit on foreign bond holdings from its current 10%. And he has positive things to say about the inflation-indexed bonds that Treasury has issued since 1997, although he doesn't think they're a particularly good deal...
...toes Friday when Dartmouth setter Kendall Houston opened the first set with two aces—the home team put up six throughout the night. But Harvard refused to let its opponent build an early advantage and the two teams rallied back-and-forth until the Big Green jumped ahead at 14-9 and forced the Crimson to take its first timeout. It was not enough to get the team on track, and Dartmouth scored 10 consecutive points before closing out the game and establishing a 1-0 lead...
Harvard’s Ivy League record is now 0-2, and the team has a long stretch of conference games ahead. Ono Horn echoed Ingersoll’s sentiments, saying that the team will continue to improve as it tries to rack up some wins in the upcoming weeks...