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Bipin Shah has sued Yager for $100 million. He denies her every rant and threatens to crush her network--one that doesn't just skirt the law but defies it, taunts it, bedevils it. Children of the Underground, which Yager basically runs out of a Dunkin' Donuts shop, is her answer to courts that don't work. And it has turned hundreds of mothers into fugitives and nabbed children from fathers who don't get two minutes in their own defense...
...steady profits. In retrospect it's clear that the constantly reversing worries were a signal that there was nothing to worry about. Bearing that out are stock market gains averaging 31% a year since 1995. One day there will actually be a problem, and rates will move up to crush inflation or down to rub out a recession. Either way, stocks will take a beating at some point in the cycle. But we're not there now. Inflation is asleep. You can almost hear it snore. There's just no reason for Greenspan to push rates higher. He knows...
...history this weekend by sweeping a pair of doubleheaders at Penn (10-27, 0-8 Ivy) and Cornell (29-8, 8-4). Harvard (27-20, 10-0) downed the Quakers by scores of 5-0 and 2-0 on Saturday afternoon before surviving a Sunday rain postponement to crush the Big red, 2-1 and 10-0, yesterday in Ithaca...
...threadbare bush jacket and frayed rubber sandals, Ho Chi Minh cultivated the image of a humble, benign "Uncle Ho." But he was a seasoned revolutionary and passionate nationalist obsessed by a single goal: independence for his country. Sharing his fervor, his tattered guerrillas vaulted daunting obstacles to crush France's desperate attempt to retrieve its empire in Indochina; later, built into a largely conventional army, they frustrated the massive U.S. effort to prevent Ho's communist followers from controlling Vietnam. For Americans, it was the longest war--and the first defeat--in their history, and it drastically changed...
...wigs falling halfway down his back. In his butchier Titanic incarnation--where, of course, he has the added advantage of getting to die dreamily in the presence of his beloved, as he also did in his breakthrough movie, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet--he is an ideal first crush: not too hot, not too cold, just right. Leonardo DiCaprio: A Biography expands on this point: "The woman that does capture Leo's heart will be in for some special romantic time with Leo... 'I'll definitely say that when I'm alone with a girl, I'm doing the baby...