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...radio news spots gave us a hint: the Chicago Bulls! Breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonald's for the next 3,500 years! Half as much money as Michael Eisner earned in 1997! We also learned that the odds of winning the grand prize are equal to the odds of getting struck by lightning on 14 occasions in a single year and 40 times higher than the chance of getting killed falling out of bed. How these numbers compare with the odds that Elizabeth Berkely will deliver a performance anyone deems Oscar worthy remains unclear...
Second, remember that all online companies are not equal. Faux Internet companies--those that have just added com to their name to pump up the stock--are doomed to Home Shopping status within a year. They include Cybershop, Ktel and Marketguide. But the real Internet companies, like AOL and Yahoo, offer something different. They can sell ads for luxury cars and discount brokers that will reach well-off people, at work and at home, much more efficiently than either TV or off-line, dead-tree media. Wall Street understands that the best Net stocks are bargains, based on projected...
...peculiar juridical habits. Former Douglas County judge Richard "Deacon" Jones, who was fired from his position by the state Supreme Court for "a continuing pattern of misconduct," claims that the scales of justice just can't handle fat jurists, and has filed a discrimination complaint with the state's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
...fashioned First Lady. To the 14,000 people who came out to see her--filling a football field from end zone to end zone--she gave a speech that she had been up writing most of the night. It touched on many of the causes she has long advocated: equal pay for women, affordable child care, gun control, guaranteed pensions and--yes--universal health care. Noting that the leaders of Seneca Falls had been called "mannish women, old maids, fanatics," Hillary said, "If it sounds familiar, it's the same thing that's always said when women keep going forward...
With the market hitting choppy water, some mutual funds are trying a balancing act. Firms like Barr Rosenberg and Euclid Advisers have launched market-neutral funds, which bet equal amounts of a portfolio on stocks to rise and fall. The funds are touted as a low-risk investment, but the high fees and taxes--and relatively low returns--extract a high price for security...