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...what should you do now? Nothing, right? Okay, maybe there are a few small things. For starters, look at the yield on your money market fund and compare it to the sector. Naturally, you want the highest return on your money. Except that maybe you don't. Higher yields usually mean riskier investments - more commercial paper, say, as opposed to Treasuries. Last Friday, before the Lehman implosion, Reserve Primary Fund was the second highest-yielding fund of the 100 largest tracked by Crane Data. For months before that, it was in the No. 1 slot. "You want to act like...
...thoughts of Prince Charles stray into your mind as you watch His Grace, that's your business. The same is true of Georgiana, who is the ancestor of Princess Di, except, that in the 18th century, her brain cells were not yet completely replaced by air. She conveys a nice sense of an untutored woman trying to embrace the world beyond the bounds of her class, while not being harassed by it - or by the tabloids, which existed in primitive form in those days, too. The Duchess, however, does not insist on such analogies; they're there...
...best kind of fashion show is called a "presentation." Instead of sitting down and waiting an hour for models to walk, you walk around to different rooms where models lounge around in gowns. It's like a Disney revue--the Country Bear Jamboree, except the bears are women who never eat and the jamboree consists of acting bored. When I exited, I asked if I could go again...
Case in point: the Harvard University Police recently reported a 47-fold jump in liquor law violations on campus last year. Such a statistic might have made 2007 an exciting drinking/partying/bail-posting season—except that the number wasn’t true...
...works to elect pro-choice Democratic women. "But as they start focusing on the issues, they will see Sarah Palin is out of step." Nearly 7 in 10 of the women TIME polled disagreed with Palin's suggestion that humans are not responsible for global warming; two-thirds took exception to her opposition to abortion in all circumstances except when the life of the mother is in danger; and a majority did not share her support of the Iraq war. What's more, they overwhelmingly - 54% vs. 37% - say Joe Biden is better prepared than Palin to take over...