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...trend toward more generous stock dividends gives income-oriented investors a solid alternative to Treasury bonds now yielding under 4%--and dividend stocks are less risky to boot. As the economy recovers, the yield on T bonds (and highly rated corporate bonds too) will rise, driving down the value of existing bonds. "Over the next few years, this is where people will lose the most money in the market," warns Steve Mintz, a fee-only investment manager in Monroe, La. High-yield corporate junk bonds, though, are somewhat insulated because a stronger economy removes much of their risk. So investors...
...voters decide not to boot Davis out of office, it means the G.O.P. will have lost three elections in five years to a man with the personality of lint. If a Republican does beat him, the winner will face a $38 billion deficit, a legislature controlled by ticked-off Democrats and a reelection fight only two years away. The only positive that could come out of this mess is that it might anger California voters enough to back a new petition - one ending the insanity of the recall...
...military in two countries continues its on-the-job training in sheiks and ayatullahs, Sunni customs and Shi'ite factionalism. Yet there is one group that has been thinking--passionately--about Muslims for more than a decade. Its army is weaponless, its soldiers often unpaid, its boot camps places like the Queens classroom. It has no actual connection with the U.S. government (except possibly to unintentionally muddy America's image). But in the past few months, its advance forces have been entering the still-smoldering battlefield of Iraq, as intent on molding its people's future as the conventional American...
...freshman feel good about having shown up to a meeting as he was saddling up to do WHRB halftime shows. Every team needs someone who keeps the disparate personalities one. Rahul—a people person for the ages—was ours, and a damn good writer to boot...
Barnes, along with his fellow embedded journalists, was prepared for the experience during a week-long media boot camp run by the military that covered topics from personal hygiene to how to march in formation with the soldiers. Barnes said he was at first a little unsure of how helpful the lectures would...