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...financial health of some 6,000 companies through a daily service that costs thousands of dollars a year. But for $299 you can subscribe to the weekly S&P Outlook. Morningstar, best known for its fund analysis, also covers stocks. A subscription costs $89 a year ($109 online). Carol Levenson's Gimme Credit, a newsletter based in Chicago, focuses on bonds but offers first-rate analysis that stock investors use too. It costs $18,000 a year. There's also good research available at sites like cbs.marketwatch.com thomsonfn.com cnbc.com quicken.com smartmoney.com and www.wallstreetcity. com. These websites require a little more...
...thing to host a TV special filled with outtakes from your old CBS comedy series and knock 'em dead in the ratings. It's quite another to try a new career as a playwright. But that's what Carol Burnett has done. She and daughter Carrie Hamilton (who died of lung cancer in January) collaborated on Hollywood Arms, a play based on Burnett's memoir, One More Time. Hamilton worked nearly till the end; she was viewing actors' audition tapes until just weeks before her death. But Mom had to finish alone. The play opened in Chicago last week...
This spring in the famously youth-obsessed TV business, Botox is out and wrinkles are in. The reason: during last November's sweeps, the networks' triannual efforts to impress advertisers--a Carol Burnett reunion on CBS surprised everyone (not least of all CBS) by drawing 30 million people to watch a reel of bloopers. Now, virtually every TV icon with an AARP card and a pulse has been pressed into service...
...certified wunderkind at 25, Foer spares no expense with his typographical special effects?italics, capital letters, parentheses within parentheses, onomatopoeia, song lyrics and encyclopedia entries?and the book comes laden with bloated blurbs ("He will win your admiration, and he will break your heart," croons Joyce Carol Oates), but don't let that distract you. Under it all there's a funny, moving, unsteady, deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible. As Perchov would say, it's the right thing...
When an author breaches that core, as Carol S. Dweck does in her contribution “Beliefs that Make Smart People Dumb,” the insights can be weighty and provocative. She posits that smart people behave stupidly precisely because they possess great intelligence. Arthur Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, is a prime example. The author’s creation was famous for debunking supernatural phenomenon by giving them rational explanations. Doyle himself, however was a disciple of the supernatural and a great believer in the fantastical apparitions revealed during seances. Though Holmes would argue that these...