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Remember Mother Nature's April Fool's joke last year? Twenty-seven inches of snow in 11 hours. The Law School shut down for the day for the first time in 18 years. A hapless tutor's car was crushed by an uprooted tree in front of Eliot House. As undergraduates returning from the sunny climes of the Bahamas and Cancun groaned and grumbled, you could almost hear the old lady chuckling in anticipation of future pranks. Well, have no fear, she mistimed it this year--the last-gasp-of-winter blizzard came a week earlier this time, when...
...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...
...Which is an uncanny repetition of last June, when Bennett first floated the prospect that Clinton?s defense would explore Jones? sexual history. He came under fire from women?s groups, and reversed course several days later, declaring he was "no fool." This time, Bennett may simply have gotten cold feet. But it's more likely that this astute purveyor of White House spin was sending a clear message to the media: We've got dirt too, and we're not afraid to use it. As with Bennett's revelation that Kathleen Willey was seeking a book deal, reporters read...
...heard him be called Shaq-Diesel, Shaq-Daddy, and Shaq-Fu. Now we can add Shaq-Fool...
Lidie is chunky and unbeautiful, but no fool, and handy with rifle and horse. When her naive husband is killed by proslave thugs, she sets out to avenge him. As she relates breezily in her journal (each chapter preceded by a passage from Miss Catherine E. Beecher's A Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School), female dress becomes a hindrance. Miss Beecher recommends self-reliance and deplores corsets, and Lidie, therefore, disguises herself as a boy. This works long enough to take her to a plantation in slave country but fails...