Word: bonds
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...work. Manager's nothing-fancy four-bedroom, two-bathroom house cost him $475,000. So he has a fat monthly payment. He'd love to invest more in the stock market. But his eldest child starts college in three years. Every spare dime goes into a short-term bond fund, where it is certain to hold its value and be available when the tuition bill arrives. It's all Manager can do to fully fund his 401(k) plan, which is in stocks. But that is a tax-deferred account. So the lower gains-tax rate is no help...
...Mezer is from Hebron, a Hamas stronghold on the West Bank, and was detained several days for rock throwing during the intifadeh. Arrested at the Canadian border in January as he tried to enter the U.S. illegally, he was detained until Feb. 6, when he posted a $5,000 bond. Some reports said Abu Mezer's alleged bombmaking was sped by news of the Hamas attack in Jerusalem. On Saturday, though, Hamas released a statement denying involvement in the Brooklyn plot. It declared, "Our battlefield is Palestine...
...have an official position on homosexuality, PLA literature defines the appropriate context for sex in exclusively heterosexual terms. One of the group's popular slogans is "One man / one wife / one love / one life" and according to one pamphlet, "Sex is for procreation and more--building an unbreakable bond of love between husband and wife...
...Whitney Houston can do it, why can't MARIAH CAREY? The diva of deep record sales is dipping her toes into the waters of acting. The video for her new song, Honey, which debuts this week, opens with a comedy sketch, after which she scampers around like a Bond girl (read: lots of changes into different, but equally skimpy, outfits). She's also in discussions about doing a movie. "It's a great way to release different creative energy," Carey says of acting. Her music is also changing--away from touchy-feely ballads to more collaborations with hip-hop artists...
DIED. ARTHUR LIMAN, 64, among his generation's best-known litigators, whose A-list clients included junk-bond king Michael Milken and the Senate Iran-contra committee; of cancer; in New York City. Liman brought a rare exuberance to a career that spanned prosecuting white-collar crime, haranguing Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and investigating the riots at Attica. (The searing Attica report he helped write was nominated for a National Book Award.) The famously disheveled Liman was known for getting so caught up in the advocacy he loved that he sometimes showed up in court with the pants from...