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...actor who comes to the screen in youth is like an IPO; audiences invest themselves in his future. After Titanic, the DiCaprio stock was goofily inflated. In the wake of The Beach, it may dip. But we should not confuse the achievement of an actor--especially one as daring, engaging and resourceful as DiCaprio--with the popularity or even success of any one film. He and we are in it for the long run. It ought to be an adventure, following the Kid on a career-long journey in search of his best or most dangerous self...
...with adverse judgments as a matter of course. It sounds wacky, but if Philip Morris lost more often, the market might not worry so much about its stock. If you're patient and can get past the moral issues, Philip Morris is a compelling stock--doubly so if you invest for income or, like my friend, plan to sock it away in a tax-deferred...
...least enough to keep us pair bonding furiously, even when there's no obvious hardheaded reason to do so. Hence, despite predictions of the imminent "breakdown of the family," the divorce rate leveled off in the 1990s, and the average couple is still hopeful or deluded enough to invest about $20,000 in their first wedding. True, fewer people are marrying: 88% of Americans have married at least once, down from 94% in 1988. But the difference is largely made up by couples who set up housekeeping without the blessing of the state. And an astounding 16% of the population...
...Bush camp, while a close loss for McCain means his candidacy is still viable. A victory for Bush is needed both to restore his momentum heading into the Feb. 22 Arizona and Michigan primaries and to revive the faith in his candidacy that led the party establishment to invest in it so heavily. "If McCain can win South Carolina and then Michigan you're going to see a very different picture with more Bush supporters defecting to McCain," says TIME Washington correspondent Karen Tumulty...
...plan, which University officials said was at the conceptual stage, employers who provide health care through Harvard Pilgrim would invest in the HMO to keep it afloat...