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...point declines, both of which took place in October. Even Fed chief Alan Greenspan got into the October-scare game last week, talking about how stocks might be too risky. Of course, he immediately said they might not be. But he referenced the Dutch Tulip Bulb craze, and that sent the market into still another October tizzy. It finished the week down 630 points, or 5.9%. In November, we wouldn't pay any attention to him, but in the month of Halloween, he spooked us but good...
There's a minor fashion craze catching on in Boston. It's nothing too expensive--just a $20 T-shirt, in fact. But you can't buy them in the store--they're only available at select locations on the sidewalks of Kenmore Square. Flip to the sports page right now. If the Boston Red Sox beat the New York Yankees in Game Five of the American League Championship Series last night, the shirts are still available. If not, well--wait until next year...
...life of me, I can't understand why the Harry Potter books are such a huge craze. They're all right, I suppose, but they seem to me to be a watered-down version of Diane Duane's far superior juvenile Wizard series. STEVE VANDEN-EYKEL New Westminster...
With the Aug. 30 release of U.S. News & World Report's annual college guide, the college rankings craze that began over a decade ago has continued. There are magazines that evaluate the per-dollar value of your education, there are books that rank graduate schools, and there are top 10 lists of everything from "Best Libraries" to "Best Party Schools...
...comfortable with the stocks, and buys and sells the stocks over and over again. Yet the media can't tell them apart. As the New York Times stated so ineloquently in its umpteenth article lumping together these diametrically opposed camps, they are both part of the "do-it-yourself craze" that is causing people to lose millions and millions of dollars every day wagering on the stock market...