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...probably made your parents dance with joy when you decided to go to Harvard. But do you want to make your parents really happy? Tell them you're going to a college that's only 12 miles away. When my parents calculated the exact distance from our house to Harvard, the burden of an empty nest suddenly seemed a lot lighter...
What has happened is the exact opposite. Far from becoming dangerously weak, the dollar, if anything, may be a bit too strong. So far this year it has risen about 6% on average against the currencies of the 19 most important U.S. trading partners. In May the greenback hit a four-year high against the British pound, while the euro, introduced 17 months earlier at a price of $1.17, fell briefly below 90[cents...
...This isn't really you. He looks like you; he says the exact same things that you say; he lives in your house--but it's not really you." Then when my father says, "I guess you're right," I just worry that he's getting really, really...
...what M.J. did against the Utah Jazz in Game 6 of the 1998 finals, faking his defender, stopping at the top of the key, 5.2 seconds on the clock, firing off a shot--swish!--holding the pose, wrist cocked, end of game, end of career. No one has his exact gifts, but we can all imagine being like him. The famous silhouette of M.J. soaring for a one-handed slam is somehow the right size and shape for us to slide our own image into...
...Senator" Bob Torricelli is really a day trader. In one frenzied period last summer, the New Jersey Democrat bought $1,001 to $15,000 (the forms congressmen fill out don't require exact numbers) worth of DrKoop.com on Aug. 5 and sold it the same day. He then bought an equal amount of Novell on Aug. 10, also selling it the same day. And on Aug. 11, Mr. Torricelli bought $15,001 to $50,000 worth of AmeriTrade stock and sold it on Aug. 13. Overall, Torricelli's stock holdings - after making hundreds of trades in 1999 - were valued from...