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...WEIRD: For a heady dose of silliness, check out useless knowledge.com a site where you'll get a daily quote, definitions for obscure words and answers to such penetrating questions as "What is quicksand?" and "Who invented the pencil?" A Yahoo-like index of arcana, absolutetrivia. com neatly organizes the world's minutiae, from crazy laws and criminals to an index of phobias. Both sites have weekly e-mail newsletters--handy for those who want their Net dalliances disguised as serious work memos...
Here we go again. Stocks set off on a fair-to-middling rally (by recent standards, anyway) Friday after hearing the fair-to-middling good news about wholesale prices from the Labor Department. The Producer Price Index, a bottom-of-the-food-chain indicator of inflation pressure, was unchanged in May, which was good news for those watching Chairman Greenspan's interest-rate trigger finger; on the other hand, the possibly more reliable "core" rate, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, edged up 0.2 percent. Complicating matters: Prognosticators were agreeably surprised by the first number and slightly disappointed...
...investor brains. He could stand pat. He could hike by a quarter-point this month so as to beat election-season, when coaxing up unemployment for the good of the country gets politically tricky. But that'd be about it, and if all's quiet on the Consumer Price Index front next Wednesday, the marketeers might be ready to lock into a slow-boiling, summer-long uptick based on the assumption that Greenspan is finally off their backs. But between now and then? Friday's pleasant rally turns to next week's nail-biting, and though Wednesday should be reassuring...
...salad days of the bull market may now be but a warm memory; amid whispers that the technology boom is at an end, the technology-heavy NASDAQ stock index has retreated from its previously high levels. Yet dreams of electronic success still tempt many into investments--universities included. In recent months, the College has made significant steps to encourage students who wish to participate in the technology gold rush and start their own companies. The decision is praiseworthy, as Harvard should enable students to pursue their interests to the fullest extent compatible with its academic mission. However, Harvard should...
...lyrics, when they aren't flat-out, call-your-local-Congressperson offensive, can be witty. "And it seems like the media immediately/points a finger at me/so I point one back at them/but not the index or pinky," he raps on one of the album's best cuts, the gruff The Way I Am. Eminem is also fearlessly blunt at times, cruelly deriding the talents of the hottest pop stars. "Don't get me started/these f_______ brats can't sing," he raps about the boy band 'N Sync. "And Britney's garbage/What--is this bitch retarded...