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...mutual fund families experienced net withdrawals in the first quarter of 1999, and floundering funds were merged out of existence at a record pace last year, according to Lipper Inc. Once-high-flying firms such as Stein Roe, Pilgrim Baxter and Berger Associates are reassigning dud managers and hustling to attract new money. Says Stephen Cone, president of customer marketing at Fidelity Investments. "We're not going to see the phenomenal growth of the past, and that may be an alarm bell for smaller firms. Their jobs have got much harder...
...Buzz An intriguing plot and inspired casting in Cusack and the versatile Robbins. But with the unaffecting Bridges in the lead role (whose similarly themed Blown Away was a dud) and an opening date just five days before Star Wars, Arlington Road could be in for a rocky trip...
...concealing of evidence and a subversion of the judicial system. If all this didn't amount at least to a high misdemeanor, what ever will? Now all the mendacious charmers out there will be looking for their chance. We have not seen the last of scoundrels with dazzling charisma. DUD GANN Cape Elizabeth, Maine...
...knotted plot untangled momentarily, as you quickly become mired in the intrinsic flaws associated with staggered storytelling. Playing by Heart has a great cast and some potential, but the sappy melodrama and scarcity of truly humorous moments leave much to be desired. This is one Valentine's Day dud that deserved to flop...
...noticed when he was two years old, but the point seems necessarily moot. In any case, he was not, as Europeans like to imagine, at home on the range, especially since Cody in 1912 was a new tract-housing development, not an Old West town. His father was a dud and a drifter who had little to do with his son. His ineffectual mother spoiled him. Mainly he was raised by older brothers, the eldest of whom, Charles, was a painter. At 16, Pollock was studying art in Los Angeles; two years later, he followed Charles to New York, where...