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...lesson for investors--even conservative income investors--is clear. By grounding your portfolio in dividend-paying stocks, over time you can enjoy the same regular payments that coupon-clipping bonds deliver with the dramatic upside of potential capital appreciation. The kicker: with most dividends now taxed at just 15%, many investors can get better after-tax returns from stocks than from bond yields, which continue to be taxed at personal-income rates as high as 35%. The number of firms paying dividends--376 of the S&P 500--has risen for the second year in a row after more than...
...also smart. In a study done last year, fund firm T. Rowe Price compared the return of a $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 stock-index (with dividends reinvested) to a core fixed-income portfolio (Lehman Brothers U.S. Aggregate bond index). Over the 20-year period from 1983 to 2003, both portfolios generated roughly the same amount of income. However, in terms of overall value, the stock portfolio grew to $71,800, the bond portfolio to only...
...himself shed a tear as he read the line, "I want the world to know that I still love the United States." In his closing arguments, prosecuting attorney Captain Seth Cohen argued for stern justice, asserting that being a good husband and father was irrelevant to this case. "The bond between a noncommissioned officer and his soldiers is a sacred bond," he maintained, "more sacred perhaps than the bond of marriage." Cohen accused Jenkins of a "deliberate, selfish and despicable act." In his closing arguments, Culp called Jenkins "America's prodigal son." "Like the Bible story we all know...
...both crushed and linked generations of neurotic New Englanders. "If we win, people will be crying," said Sox fan Tom Faria, celebrating at the Yankee Tavern in the Bronx after Game 7. "Not just because they're happy. They'll be crying for their fathers. Just for that bond...
...point he shows up at Wernham Hogg, asking his ex-employees to go out for a drink--begging, really--in the mistaken belief that they love him. Only Tim accepts, to break the awkwardness--but also, perhaps, because he and David, like war veterans from opposite sides, share a bond that only they can understand. They have walked that carpet. In the end, The Office suggests, that's as good a basis for a connection as any. --By James Poniewozik. With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/ Los Angeles