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...soft-spoken 28-year-old Douglas Faneuil, in his plain gray suit and tie, who last week owned the room inside the lower-Manhattan federal courthouse where Stewart is facing criminal charges for obstruction of justice and securities fraud. Faneuil is the former assistant to Peter Bacanovic, Stewart's broker at Merrill Lynch and her co-defendant in the trial. For three days Faneuil electrified the jury with his tales of Stewart's abrasive telephone manner and his boss's frantic efforts to cover up a potentially illegal stock transaction. His performance was so riveting that at one stage...
...reflexively refers to the Conservative leader as Mr. Howard. He speaks in a controlled way about his opponents and does not show annoyance with persistent questioning or hectoring. When it comes to his own party, Latham does not travel with the baggage of being an insider or power broker - or as a front for other interests. How much will the party be prepared to bend to Latham's command? That will depend - as it did for Whitlam and Bob Hawke - on how quickly Latham can pull in the voters. There isn't a great deal of time for Labor...
...year's winners will include Pfizer, Wyeth, Bristol-Myers, GE, Microsoft (it started paying a dividend last year), Coca-Cola and Altria. Any number of mutual funds focus on dividend payers. Among the best are Fidelity Dividend Growth, T. Rowe Price Dividend Growth and (if you invest through a broker) Capital Income Builder from the American Funds group. Don't bet too much on any one theme. Keep large-and small-cap stock funds, junk bonds, real estate, foreign stocks and Treasuries. But dividend payers should trump them...
...acknowledging the accord’s overall fairness and the inevitability of tough compromises like those it details, Bush could restart the peace process and restore his credibility as an honest broker, lost as it was with his reluctance to enforce the Roadmap. Israeli and Palestinian moderates might agitate for a cease-fire and a settlement freeze—required in the Roadmap’s first phrase—if Bush offers them details about the kind of two-state solution they stand to lose. Like Oslo before it, the Roadmap failed in part because it left the questions...
...N.A.R. is changing the game. This past spring, after years of heated debate and threats from Cendant to bolt, N.A.R. created rules that allow its brokers to keep their listings from any sites they choose--whether a Web-only brokerage like eRealty or a site run by a traditional broker...