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There's lots more, from barbershops tuned into CNBC and cabbies gabbing about mutual funds to a record number of investment clubs and the rise to guru status of two advisers who wear clown hats and go by the name Motley Fool. If it's not a mania, it's certainly close. "I'm nervous," concedes Fossel. "We're finally getting to the point where everyone thinks the market can only go onward and upward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW I LEARNED TO HATE THE DOW | 10/21/1996 | See Source »

...played his campaign like a sly fox, shaping it with Executive actions on everything from teen smoking to anti-inflation bonds, using them to underscore a single, optimistic view of the country and the future. (I see many things, and I see one big thing too.) It was fallen guru Dick Morris who tried to make the case that Clinton was the great postideological hedgehog, the unifier of divergent strains in American political thought. Clinton, Morris said, is "the end product of the debate between Democrats and Republicans this century." He used this Hegelian dialectic to describe Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHEN FOXES POSE AS HEDGEHOGS | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

Then Pete did something unbelievable. He cracked a second-serve ace wide to the deuce court to set up a match point. Boston Globe sportswriter and general tennis guru Bud Collins described it as the single greatest swing of a tennis racket he had ever seen. It was one of those moments in sports that brings you out of your seat, no matter where you are or when...

Author: By Keith S. Greenawalt, | Title: In Case You Missed It | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

Civil war historian/baseball guru William E. Gienapp's seminar on the American pastime? Maximum enrollment: 20. Newly-recruited North-western University professor Jane Mansbridge's class on race, gender and politics? Just...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: New Course Offerings Excite, but Beware Enrollment Limits | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

Civil war historian/baseball guru William E. Gienapp's seminar on the American pastime? Maximum enrollment: 20. Newly-recruited Northwestern University professor Jane Mansbridge's class on race, gender and politics? Just...

Author: By Amber L. Ramage, | Title: New Course Offerings Excite, but Beware Enrollment Limits | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

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