Word: foole
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...story is in keeping with the paper's tradition of running an April Fool's front page, according to Herald staffers...
...defeat at the hands of Harvard's Ivy League championship team this fall weren't enough, Yale's football team has suffered another demoralizing blow. In honor of April Fool's Day, the weekly Yale Herald's March 27 issue features a front-page story announcing plans for the demolition of the Yale Bowl...
Last year's April Fool's issue claimed that a Vincent Van Gogh painting housed in the Yale University Art Gallery was a forgery. And the year before, the Herald announced, in the midst of a bitter strike by Yale's dining services employees, that the McDonald's restaurant chain would take over the school's dining halls...
...have been the clearest sell signal ever missed. It was spring 1996, and, yes, the stock market has been levitating since then. Sometimes sell signals are early. The first book was by David and Tom Gardner, a brother act in jester hats with the catchy title of Motley Fool Investment Guide. The second, The Whiz Kid of Wall Street's Investment Guide, was by Matt Seto, 17. The third was the now infamous debut, Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense Investment Guide, by a 14-member investment club from Beardstown, Ill., a lovable but math-challenged gaggle of stock-picking grandmas...
...Motley Fool is a different case. The Gardners invest in a wildly popular public forum www.fool.com) and have always posted their results. Why not? They've been spectacular over the long term. But not lately. The Fools lagged the market in '97, and are below par again this year. They too, by the way, say it's no big deal to get average gains of 30% a year, indefinitely...