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...Global Equity Income Fund has sunk more than most. The average stock fund is down 12% in the past year, according to research firm Morningstar. Compared with other equity-income-fund managers, O'Leary has done even worse. Those funds, generally considered to be safer investments, on average have fallen 10%, or less than half the plunge of O'Leary's fund. And O'Leary is not doing any better since the market turned up in early March. The average equity income fund has rebounded sharply, up nearly 49% since stocks reached their low in early March, according to Morningstar...
Heading into the 2009 season, the Harvard field hockey team could have fallen back on any number of excuses. With just five upperclassmen on the roster, no backup goaltender, and only three available subs on the bench, it would have been easy to explain a sluggish start to the season.But the Crimson hasn’t needed those excuses. Instead, Harvard (2-0) recorded its second straight win last night, defeating UC Davis (3-2), 4-1, at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.“I thought that we played well,” junior Chloe Keating said...
...Jackson's lesser-known friends were also given a moment to share their memories of the fallen star. The spontaneous speeches were some of the most poignant. One in particular was delivered by David Rothenberg, a burn victim whom Jackson took care of for years after 90% of his body was scorched in a childhood fire. "He was very scarred over all of his body," says a guest. "He spoke about Michael and how he cared for [Rothenberg] for so long without asking for anything in return. It was very moving." (See the top 10 Michael Jackson moments...
...racist, nor any kind of bigot. He is certainly less sympathetic to his subjects than many other contemporary writers on Africa, but at the same time he condemns the simplicities of racial analysis and highlights the unfair plight of Indian immigrants throughout East Africa. His brother has fallen understandably under fire for ethnically and religiously insensitive remarks—in recent years, V.S. Naipaul has been overtly prejudiced in his assessment of Muslims and the Islamic World—but Shiva Naipaul, by contrast, merely shares his brother’s resonance and descriptive eye for the evocatively grotesque, notably...
...also credits Twitter for the resurgence of terms like heigh-ho and hey-ho - exclamations of happiness, disappointment or surprise - that had fallen into disuse. Words popular in e-mail shorthand and text-messaging such as OMG (oh my god) and WTF (what the f___) also made...