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...have the pleasure of picking up some of those high flyers you've wanted to buy but considered--rightly, I think--too expensive of late: the Coca-Colas and Lucents, or the funds that hold them. Do your research and make a shopping list now. Plan to put your excess cash back in stocks in equal steps--as any market drop reaches, say, 8%, 12%, 16%, then 20%. If the market turns around before the final threshold, keep putting money in as those levels are breached going...
Huang's bad luck continued. A week before spring finals, Huang found out she had a urinary tract infection. While being treated, which should have been a fairly standard process, Huang experienced complications that led to a kidney infection, excess fluid in her lungs and eye problems. Huang got out of the hospital the night before her first final. Though she hadn't studied, she took her exams because she didn't want to go through taking makeups again...
...standoff against encroaching fate, would have crowned the evening and rounded memory with a perfect dramatic closure. Too much to expect perhaps, but in a sense that was Sinatra's own fault. Too much, he had always shown us, was the least we could expect from him. Not as excess, mind, but as abundance. So much heart, so much sorrow, such delicacy and such braggadocio, all for the music he made indelible, with enough to spare so that it spilled over into his life and into all the public refractions...
...have said many times this year, starting back in October, we are especially concerned about binge drinking, and drinking to such excess that students' safety and good judgment are impaired," he said...
Nothing succeeds like excess" goes the famous Hollywood maxim, and nowhere is that more true than offscreen. We're talking about those ego-driven dictators of Panavision dreams who consume truckloads of drugs, frolic with call girls and go millions over budget as carelessly as if they were writing a bad check for groceries. Take Francis Coppola, who drank from Lalique crystal and cavorted with bimbos on the set of Apocalypse Now while his crew suffered from hookworm and rabies. How about Martin Scorsese, who was so wired at Cannes in 1978 that he sent a plane to Paris just...