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Well, no, most experts agree, at least if you have more than a few thousand dollars in the market. For starters, few deny that the rampaging U.S. market is long overdue for some kind of pullback. The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 hasn't suffered even a 10% decline in seven years, two times the second longest such period. A lot of good things are happening in the U.S. economy, including low inflation and rising profits. But even if U.S. stocks can avoid a tumble, they certainly cannot keep doubling every three years, as they recently did. And even compared...
Meyers said his long-range goals are more modest. Over a five-year period he hopes to beat the benchmark by 1 percent and the average fund by about 2 percent per year...
Factoring in this year's numbers brings HMC's five-year returns to 18.9 percent on average, 3.2 percent above the benchmark and 4.9 percent above the average fund...
...Harvard professor Stephan Thernstrom and his scholar wife Abigail. The couple are the latest in a string of former liberals come round to denounce affirmative action. But unlike more polemical authors, the Thernstroms pin their arguments to seven years of research, modeling their approach on Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 benchmark racial survey, An American Dilemma. Their prose is cool, not overheated, and their 704-page book is stuffed with tables, charts and graphs tracking black progress over the past 60 years...
Already, prepublication, the book is causing a stir. Christopher Edley, President Clinton's point man on the "mend it, don't end it" approach to affirmative action, published a rebuttal in Harvard magazine in July. Kirkus Reviews has declared the book "likely to be seen as the benchmark scholarly study of America's current anguish over the race question." The New Republic is planning an excerpt...