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...fairness to the analysts (most long gone from the firm's surviving entity, Lehman Bros.), had they concocted a decade as fruitful as this one turned out to be, they would have been dismissed as shameless touts. And they did get a few things right, including a national budget surplus and an enduring expansion without much inflation. But most enlightening by far is that the 57 stocks in their portfolio walloped the S&P 500 over 10 years, proving again that patience--not brilliance--is the way to prosper in the stock market...
...Wells Fargo, each up between fivefold and 75-fold, were in the mix, providing exposure to the hottest sectors of the decade: computers, banks and drugs. And that's the big lesson. If you're busy racking up commission and tax costs, always chasing hot stocks or funds, get a life. All you really need is a few good ideas and the patience to be waiting when one pans out. What about the next 10 years? Think Internet infrastructure (it will be built even if every dotcom fails), wireless telecom as the world goes mobile, leisure and medicine as baby...
...final chapter is only 10 pages long and recounts Kennedy's role as a counselor to Bill Clinton during the Monica thing. Here the experience of his own humiliations was brought to bear. Clinton is quoted saying that Kennedy's advice was always simple: "It's just sort of get up and go to work, just keep going, and remember why you wanted the job in the first place." Concludes Clymer: "A son of privilege, he has always identified with the poor and the oppressed. The deaths and tragedies around him would have led others to withdraw. He never quits...
Stein is not a performer by training. A fallen hippie Yale law graduate (with Hillary Clinton), Stein used his father's connections to get a job as a speechwriter for President Nixon (with Pat Buchanan, David Gergen and John McLaughlin), who was then under siege from, among others, Carl Bernstein, Stein's childhood next-door neighbor and Maryland public high school classmate (with Sylvester Stallone, Goldie Hawn and Connie Chung). Although some have posited him as Deep Throat, Stein has always remained a Nixon loyalist. Tapes of Nixon's resignation show Stein crying, and he insists that he was asked...
People constantly point out teenagers' shortcomings. I am tired of hearing about those stereotypical mistakes. What is adolescence about, anyway? We don't need someone telling us we're going about growing up all wrong. The youth of today need to get support from adult members of society so that we can continue to make this world a place that believes in tolerance and accepts people who learn from their mistakes. LINDSAY GLASSCOCK, AGE 16 Fort Collins, Colo...