Word: goode
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annual meeting cum Buffettfest that he won't buy tech stocks because he doesn't know how to value them, and Lynch glibly confessed to thousands more at a fund-industry conference that he doesn't know how to turn on a computer. Lynch's point, as ever a good one, was that you shouldn't own what you don't understand--most things tech, in his case...
...Cisco do?--and volatile and pricey. But even strict-value managers, who focus on low stock prices relative to earnings, buy them. "Get your head out of the sand," Scott Black at Delphi Management advises tech sissies. Look for normal stuff--little debt, market dominance, sustainable advantage, strong brand, good managers, a commitment to research and development. You can find tech companies priced right. Black's favorites include electronics suppliers Arrow and Nu Horizons...
...opening pages of Disgrace, which has just won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize, David Lurie, a white professor of communications, assesses his life: "He is in good health, his mind is clear... He lives within his income, within his temperament, within his emotional means. Is he happy? By most measurements, yes, he believes he is." And then comes the first crack in the wall of his self-satisfaction: "However, he has not forgotten the last chorus of Oedipus: Call no man happy until he is dead...
...mortality, the temptations of celebrity and, yes, the possibilities of sexual adventure (with Joan Cusack's Jessica the cowgirl). That's a lot for an earnest little cowhand to handle. But the gang from Andy's bedroom (led by Tim Allen's Buzz Lightyear, naturally) offers him daring, good-humored support during his multiple crises. Just getting Slinky the Dog, Rex the Dinosaur and Mr. Potato Head across a busy street is a task of Schwarzeneggerian proportions--but funny. Pixar's improved computer animation is up to all the demands of this excellent adventure...
...believe they were inspired by the media's coverage of the Columbine incident and other school shootings, where every aspect of the murderers' lives is reported on TV and in the press, making them heroes to troubled teens. The media should devote more space to teens who are doing good things instead of paying attention to those who do something unimaginably horrible. JOHN SHIPLEY Dunkirk...