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...list of stocks posting new lows in their price has been littered with quality, brand-name cyclical companies--Case, Deere, Goodyear, Union Carbide, Whirlpool--which could rebound sharply if recession is averted. Quality commodity producers--Phelps Dodge, Reynolds Metals, U.S. Steel--sell at prices previously seen only during the harshest of downturns. If these stocks stay down too long, you can bet that larger companies will make takeover bids...
...book's harshest criticism of Harvard wasthat it has "lost much originality and now marchesin lockstep with the dominant trends of theintellectual world...
...embodies not only the example of courageand determination under the harshest conceivablecircumstances, but--something even more rare--thevery spirit of reconciliation in his own nationand throughout the world," Rudenstine continued...
...soft spots. As much as one could criticize the romantic ballroom scene, I simply can't do it. Although expectedly cheezy, the slow waltz into adoration that Belle and the Beast have is enough to melt even the harshest heart. By the time the Beast--who previously climbed walls rather than stairs and who took almost a full minute to suppress his pride enough to ask "please"--tells Belle, "You're not my prisoner. You haven't been for a long time," one becomes ready to forgive and forget about the rest of the musical in exchange for that...
...swashbuckling billionaires like George Soros, whose trades can drive down entire foreign economies. I'm a much smaller fish: my partner and I manage about $360 million, investing almost all of it in U.S. stocks. But like the big boys, we get to engage in one of the purest, harshest, most exhilarating forms of capitalism. I post million-dollar gains or losses almost every day, and what I learn can help you as an individual investor...