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...thing to me last week. He's about to roll his 401(k) assets into an IRA, where at last he'll have a pool of money to buy individual stocks. So what's the first thing he plans to buy? No dot bombs for him. A large chunk will go into shares of Philip Morris, his former arch nemesis and a company that Business Week has dubbed America's most reviled--quite a fall from FORTUNE's most admired list...
...compassionate" and "conservative" factions of the party he promised to unite. While Bush captured a commanding victory in Saturday's closely watched South Carolina primary, many analysts say he mortgaged the future of his campaign by conceding too much to the religious right, which makes up an unusually large chunk of South Carolina Republicans (roughly 35 percent). Exit polls in South Carolina revealed that John McCain won every major demographic group except for religious conservatives, who overwhelmingly supported Bush. But while many thought South Carolina would provide huge momentum to its victor, a Zogby poll taken the day after Bush...
...seated, the room erupts into applause. "People here love to clap," laughs Rebecca Reider '00, as the evening's master chef is lauded. The food is delicious, but few ever miss the opportunity for fresh bread. During the meal, people trail into the kitchen to cut off a chunk from one of the six loaves lying on the counter, fresh from the oven--a long way from the Wonderbread in Harvard's dining halls...
...Democratic voters. What remains to be seen is whether the plan will fare better than previous big-issue liberal proposals that failed to rescue Bradley from the shadows of John McCain and Al Gore. Bradley's health care reform and child-poverty-alleviation proposals didn't inspire a noticeable chunk of Democrats, while campaign finance reform, once one of his most popular themes, was somehow gobbled up as a campaign issue by McCain...
...read. In the third grade he still stumbled over simple words. So his parents got him a private tutor, and that changed his life. He became a good student and later an exceptional corporate leader. When he sold Netscape, he pocketed $700 million. Last week he brought a big chunk of that money back to his home state...