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...financial security. But stock prices are a lot higher than when you started investing, whether that was last decade or last year. The good times may persist until the last baby boomer retires in splendor in 2029. But the market has a history of taking back a good chunk of what it gave--and when you least expect it. Investors got a reminder of that last Tuesday, when the Dow plunged 151 points, part of a four-day drop. It fell an additional 176 points by midday Wednesday, recovered a bit, then fell 70 points Friday...
...really takes a big chunk of time out because you are gone for weekends, but it is worth it," said sophomore Lily Childress. "The team was really a lot of fun and the people were great...
Harvard women's cross-country entered this season having to cope with the graduation of a chunk of its team, one that posted an impressive 20-3 dual meet record last season...
Forst and classmate Brain Ralph lead the way, Forst batting .409 with 61 hits and Ralph, despite missing a chunk of the season, hitting .373 with nine home runs and 32 RBI. Ralph is only one long ball away from tying Harvard's all-time record for homers in a season...
...bookie who, with his entourage occupies the first row of seats, to the "suits"--the Wall Streeters who rode the 4 train uptown to take in a game--to the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who somehow always manage to comprise a significant chunk of the bleacher attendance, a mass of humanity totally blind to distinctions of class, race and creed bound together around a man who had been chased from the pastime in disgrace for cocaine addiction...