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...likely to be in less obvious places, and Charles Baird, chairman and founder of the private equity firm North Castle Partners in Greenwich, Conn., believes he has tapped into something big. Baird has invested $800 million in what he calls "healthy living," an industry built around traits that will distinguish the next crop of retirees from earlier generations that just wanted to play a little golf...
SWINGING SCENE Its array of ancient temples and centuries-old, wooden storefronts would be enough to distinguish Phetchaburi, 100 miles south of Bangkok, from other road stops on the way to Hua Hin. Yet it was the royal architecture at Khao Wang, or Palace Hill, that in its heyday drew the rich and famous to this faded gem of a trading port, whose name means "Diamond City...
...have reliably ended in scandal, followed by soul-searching and reform. But investors are divided over what needs to be done. The gentle, self-policing era that SEC chairman Harvey Pitt proclaimed last October is dead and gone, but even some battered investors don't trust grandstanding lawmakers to distinguish between reforms that are needed and those that will cramp the recovery even more. That was the argument Dick Cheney and others made to the President--that in the long run, Bush will suffer more if he gets a quick political boost from reforms that strangle the economy. While more...
...have reliably ended in scandal, followed by soul-searching and reform. But investors are divided over what needs to be done. The gentle, self-policing era that sec chairman Harvey Pitt proclaimed last October is dead and gone, but even some battered investors don't trust grandstanding lawmakers to distinguish between reforms that are needed and those that will cramp the recovery even more. That was the argument Dick Cheney and others made to the President-that in the long run, Bush will suffer more if he gets a quick political boost from reforms that strangle the economy. While more...
Historians traditionally distinguish them by contrasting their personalities--the brooding Meriwether Lewis played off against the genial William Clark--Jeremy Irons hitting the road with John Goodman. Gary Moulton, editor of the explorers' journals, says, "The differences existed, but they may have been exaggerated." In reality, the two men had far more in common. They were both Virginians. They were both Army officers, six-footers and experienced outdoorsmen, who first met eight years before the expedition when they were serving in Indian campaigns in the Ohio Valley. They shared with their friend Thomas Jefferson a passion for such Enlightenment sciences...