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...Beatles keep in touch constantly, bounding in and out of each other's homes like members of a single large family--which, in a sense, they are. Their friendship is an extraordinary intimate and empathetic bond. When all four are together, even close friends like Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones sense invisible barriers thrown up between themselves and outsiders. "We're still our own best friends," each says...They constitute a four-way plug-in personality, each sparking the circuits in his own way. Paul, outgoing and talkative, spreads a sheen of charm; he is the smoother-over...
...spelled out his name "D as in destruction, A as in America, S as in Sam." "She couldn't believe somebody was using those words over the phone," says Hamilton Township, N.J., police lieutenant Michael Cane. Das was charged with one count each of disorderly conduct and harassment. Bond was set at $25,000. After Das spent five hours in jail, attorneys for his company, which has its headquarters in Atlanta, arranged to post bail. (As a condition of being interviewed, Das refused to give his company's name for fear that his arrest would cause the firm embarrassment...
...form, piling up the world's second largest individual fortune and persuading millions to mimic the low-tech, buy-and-hold style of stock picking he practices at BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY. When a financial firm needs a bailout, the "Oracle of Omaha" usually gets a call. His investment rescued bond-trading powerhouse Salomon Brothers in the early '90s. Buffett, 71, is now active in efforts to get federal backing for insurers exposed to losses in future terror attacks...
SCHOTTENFELD: Bull markets have started in the past at high P/E multiples because the earnings are depressed. And with bond yields so low, an S&P 500 at 23 times earnings isn't outrageous...
...spending, that did it. And he'll have the potent economic argument that the only sure way for Washington to kick off another ten-year expansion - like the one, ahem, that just ended under the new guy - is to put the budget back in balance and soothe the savage bond markets that run up long-term interest rates when the feds run up the debt. (The economic ideal would be tax cuts and a balanced budget, but when was the last time that happened...