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More than a vacation was wrecked. So was Lynch's aura of invincibility. For ten years, Lynch, 43, had been the wunderkind of the investment world, the man who could do no wrong. Magellan was the brightest star in the galaxy of mutual funds offered by Fidelity Investments, which manages more than $75 billion for investors. Between 1977, when Lynch took over Fidelity Magellan, and the beginning of last October, the value of the fund's shares grew by more than 2000%. A $1,000 investment made ten years ago was worth $21,437.70. No other mutual fund came close...
...baseball fans seeking spiritual sustenance to carry them through to spring training, the off-season's brightest offering is Diamonds Are Forever (Chronicle; 166 pages; $35, $18.95 paper), a beguiling sampler of photos, artworks and writings about the game. The prose excerpts are literary as well as journalistic (Roger Angell, Wilfrid Sheed, John Updike). The illustrations are less familiar: a haunting photo of a sandlot game by Joel Meyerowitz; the charming primitive canvases of Ralph Fasanella; more sophisticated images by such artists as Robert Gwathmey and Claes Oldenburg. At the heart of them all is that enduring diamond, evoked...
...most accounts, the government was genuinely shocked by the defeat. Jaruzelski, who had campaigned vigorously for approval, maintained a sullen silence. Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, by contrast, sought to put the brightest possible face on the vote's outcome. The authorities had "wanted to know the true opinion of the population, an opinion expressed freely," he said, and they professed "satisfaction" with the results...
Though the NHL has spawned its brightest stars--Wayne Gretzky. Mike Bossy and Mario Lemieux--in the past 10 years, the excessive violence has not stopped...
Forget everything you have ever read about two of the brightest stars of the Harvard women's hockey team--Char Joslin and Jennifer White...