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...suggests that families join the National Association of Investors Corp. for an easy, quick and low-cost introduction. Once you've got your feet wet, you and your kids can research other ways to buy stocks, such as directly from the company or through a discount broker. You should probably discourage online investing; I believe finance should be a tactile experience, at least at first. Danielle Slythe, a 15-year-old investor, tells me that kids shouldn't trade online because she feels it encourages a game-playing, day-trading mentality. That sounds like great advice...
...Clinton's diplomatic team adamantly defends its strategy. "Those people who think that the peace process doesn't work or is flawed or is the problem, I think they're dead wrong," Secretary of State Madeleine Albright tells TIME. But should the U.S. now step aside and let another broker try his hand at negotiating a peace, say U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan or the European Union? The Palestinians would like to internationalize future negotiations, believing they would get a better hearing from other middlemen, but Israel deeply distrusts the U.N. or European intermediaries. "We are the only country that...
...example, Madeline Albright's statements that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount "may" have caused some "tension" while stone-throwing Palestinians are "laying siege to Israel" prove an alliance that cannot be disguised by the farcical and hypocritical insistence that the US is an "honest broker." The United States has allegiances and is therefore not impartial. It cannot keep the world's peace. Better it contribute to the negotiations as an interested party than subtly skew them towards its own ends...
David Dichter likes being a matchmaker. And like any self-respecting love broker, he takes pride in arranging happily-ever-after marriages. Dichter's mission is to bring together entrepreneurs in developing countries and help them form profitable alliances. "They need someone to be the proverbial honest broker," he says...
...growing number of experts believe that this administration's effort to broker a Mideast deal just hasn't worked. Is it time for the U.S. to step aside and let somebody else try their hand at this - U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, a European leader, or maybe the Russians...