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This is what the bull market hath wrought: two jesters, a teenager and a band of recipe-reciting septuagenarians as market heroes. Well, last week one bubble burst. The lovable ladies were unmasked as frauds--unintentional, mind you--but frauds nonetheless. Five books, hundreds of speeches and dozens of national-TV appearances later, Chicago Magazine challenged their claim of earning compound annual average returns of 23.4% in the 10 years ending...
Spurred by the fiasco, I thought I'd check on the authors of the two other tomes that came my way in a bullish burst two years ago. Seto is now a third-year undergrad, majoring in economics at the University of Michigan. His father tells me he is doing wonderfully, running the Matt Seto Fund. I could not reach the younger Seto. He's traveling overseas, but if he's still cranking out the 34% his book cover promises, he's the one who should be publishing more books. Still, it is unrealistic for most people to expect these...
CRANS MONTANA, Switzerland--Alberto Tomba threw himself to the ground at the finish line, rolled on his back and burst into tears. Then he stripped to his undershirt and hugged his sister...
...caught in a scandal with an underage girl. Or of President Gene Hackman in Absolute Power, who has sex so rough with the wife of a major contributor that she wounds him with a letter opener. That leads his Secret Service agents to burst into the room and shoot her dead. At least for once the cover-up isn't worse than the crime...
...subtle and nuanced, yet vivid and exciting as the orchestra swelled and faded dramatically. The violins shimmered over the rapid-fire rataplan of the brass as the overture progressed. Dancing staccato strings quickly relinquished prominence to legato passages for a fuller ensemble, until finally the hall exploded with a burst of trombone fanfare. A subdued orchestra, with piccolo decoration, receded once again into the portentous moodiness of the opening as gruff cellos reappeared to close the piece...