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...show how the individual stocks in your mutual funds have been doing? Montgomery Asset Management is rolling out a family of "focused funds" called Stock Solutions that will put its investments into more "transparent" portfolios. Fund owners will have online access to information on stock holdings and their allocations, albeit with a two-week lag (instead of the three months or six months it takes most fund companies). That way, you can dump a fund sooner if you don't like its dogs...
What does this say about the people who are willing to go through with this (albeit for a potentially large reward)? One of the "Survivor" castaways is a single mother of three-year-old twins, whom she was willing to abandon for more than a month. Would you really want someone like this on your team if you were trying to survive on an uninhabited island? Could you really put your trust in this person, knowing she has already deserted her own children at a critical time in their childhood for a chance to win a million dollars...
...where academic luminaries go, students are sure to follow. Stanford's yield rate--the percentage of admitted students who choose to attend--has been steadily increasing over the past several years. Although this is true of a number of top schools, over the past five years Stanford has consistently--albeit slightly--beaten Yale in matriculation rates, coming in second only to Harvard...
...string instruments without contrivance or false pathos. "I caught a glimpse, and it's not me," rasps Matthews, an utterance worthy of King Lear thrown out into the night. In "Shoot the Messenger," Matthews morphs again to give a convincing invocation of Tom Waits circa his "Rain Dogs" album, albeit with a Welsh twang in tow. Yet overall the album causes a disconcerting flush and distress at its inconsistency. Matthews' voice is too good for mere pop. Catatonia's instrumentation is too catchy to act solely as backdrop. Theirs is a hard line to walk. B -Teri Wang...
...more type of alternate universe remains, however, and in this case there's a chance of detection--albeit a highly circumstantial...