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...weeks, companies will begin reporting second-quarter results, and some stocks will react in ways that defy logic. Why? They are being moved by a relatively new Wall Street device, the "whisper number." Trust me. This whisper is more exciting than anything a dream date might pant into your ear...
...have a whisper number in most quarters. There's been one for Microsoft, Netscape and Cisco Systems. Strong candidates this quarter are Dell and Compaq. How do you get the whisper? You don't. Only elite investors get their lobes tickled. The rest of us get the kind of ear nuzzle that Mike Tyson put on Evander Holyfield...
...Stinks, doesn't it? And don't expect the SEC to help with Wall Street's little games. It's watching; so far that's all. But patience can be an effective counterpunch. In the long run, stocks track earnings growth, no matter who's breathing what in whose ear...
Mike Tyson, who may have earned $140 million since he got out of prison two years ago, spent his 31st birthday begging. Two days after he sampled Evander Holyfield's ear, threw away their championship return bout and maybe also the rest of his career, Tyson was standing before a microphone pleading not to be barred from boxing. "I only ask that I not be penalized for life for this mistake," he said. He added that he had sought professional help "to find out why I did what...
...since he won the Nobel in 1992, finds the 67-year-old wanderer sitting on the veranda in the last indigo hour of the day, "watching the hills die" and imagining a world where he will exist no more. All the master's gifts are prodigally displayed here: an ear that finds liquid music in "fast water quarrelling over clear stones," a wit that sees death--the state of wordlessness--as "beyond declension," and an attentiveness that not only observes squirrels "spring up like questions" but also, 20 pages later, amplifies and complicates the image as "squirrels abound and repeat...