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...that Wall Street's current exuberance was serious. If they're still headed north in two months - at the rate investors are pricing in this recovery, that's no sure thing even if it does show up - we'll know it was rational, and not just another insidious analyst-banker conspiracy of hype. Or foolishness...
...carve" the board to make regular skateboard-style turns, but every time I started sliding, I promptly fell on my behind. It was fun for the two or three seconds before I came crashing down. "There's a pretty steep learning curve," admits Steen Strand, 35, the investment banker turned entrepreneur who invented Freebord. Will I ever catch big air on that curve? Probably not. But that's O.K. I may break my neck trying, but at least I won't die of boredom--or Chunky Monkey ice cream...
...prosecuting team also has the Swiss-born Del Ponte, who is one tough lawyer. The Cosa Nostra mobsters whom Del Ponte, as Switzerland's attorney general, pursued on money-laundering charges tried to blow her up; the banker gnomes in Zurich whose secrecy she penetrated trembled before her. No matter what stunts Milosevic pulls, says Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Program at Human Rights Watch, "she is not going to be sidetracked or tripped...
...provide a rich bounty to the Graves clan. Jacob Hughes, a Welshman, first planted in this part of Kentucky in the 1770s, but now his great-great-grandson, Jacob Hughes Graves III, 75, grows corn and tobacco only out of tradition. Although he earned his livelihood as a banker, Graves grew up working on the farm, and he always hoped his land might provide at least one of his nine children with an agricultural career...
Rather than starting new magazines, investment banker Hale predicts, most publishers will rework existing titles. TIME has introduced this Generations section for its mature readers. The January issue of Esquire offered interviews with such sages as John Kenneth Galbraith, 93, and Chuck Berry, 75. But not everything will change. Many magazines find it hard to "move off the DNA" that sets their fundamental tone, says Hale. That's why you may never see tips on hearing-aid fashion in Vogue...