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...through a broker Those middlemen typically take an up-front commission--something like 5% of the money you invest. Over 10 years, that $3,000-a-year investment thus becomes $42,133--or $2,218 less. If the advice you get is worth that price, great. If not, consider a plan sold directly to investors. Kerry O'Boyle, an analyst at investment tracker Morningstar Inc., recommends Alaska's T. Rowe Price College Savings Plan and the College Savings Plan of Nebraska. (Just be aware that if you buy an out-of-state plan, you may be giving up state...
...sounding think tanks and public-policy groups, some of which Abramoff and Scanlon themselves set up. The stocky figure in the black fedora who left the federal courthouse after telling Judge Ellen Huvelle of his "tremendous sadness and regret for my conduct" was barely recognizable as the flamboyant power broker who used to send lawmakers and their staffs on junkets around the world and entertain them back in Washington with golf outings, free meals at his expensive restaurant, and concerts and games enjoyed from the luxury skyboxes he maintained at nearly every arena and stadium in town...
...nerd turned poverty warrior, love facts and data with a tenderness most people reserve for their children, and Bono was hurling metrics across the table as fast as they could keep up. "He was every bit the geek that we are," says Gates Foundation chief Patty Stonesifer, who helped broker that first summit. "He just happens to be a geek who is a fantastic musician...
...Twenty-eight years later, the journalist-turned-stock-broker-turned-TV-show-host has the same risk-taking mentality as he did during his undergraduate years...
...books designed to steer young people away from street gangs and towards a life of nonviolence. He produced public-service announcements urging kids to stay out of gangs, and he participated in anti-violence mentoring programs via telephone. Newark city officials also credited Williams for helping to broker a peace between the rival gangs the Crips and the Bloods, which helped lead to a drop in Newark’s murder rate. The killings Williams committed and the crimes his founding of the Crips caused are tragic and horrific. But the work Williams did in prison to help stem gang...