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...among us managed a pretty fair imitation. That would be, of all unlikely people, Woody Allen, ever voluble in his admiration for Hope. "It's just shameless how I steal from him," he said recently. "I don't mean the contents of his jokes--but I do him, I lean on him." He means Hope's comic character--especially, in Allen's early films, his sexual ineptitude and the endless spray of one-liners. What Hope uniquely had was brashness, the ability to tweak the mighty (and their supporting ninnies) and skip away unscathed...
...Harvard Corporation is expected to vote this fall to not increase endowment payout for the next fiscal year, a rare move that would decrease schools’ real endowment revenue in already lean times...
Some foods did stand out in the data, however. Potatoes, while not clearly harmful or beneficial, tilted more to the bad side, as did eggs and meat--all foods that are consumed sparingly in traditional Mediterranean diets. Vegetables, legumes, nuts (in moderation) lean to the good side, with the greatest benefit coming from the consumption of large quantities of fruit. As you might expect, the NEJM study also showed that a Mediterranean diet did not eliminate the unsalutary effects of smoking or overeating...
...airwaves. In 1985, North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms launched a campaign to get 1 million conservatives to buy 20 shares of stock in CBS each and "become Dan Rather's boss." Conservatives still argue--garnering huge and sympathetic audiences in the process--that the traditional media giants lean left. But these days, that familiar spiel is done more for rhetorical effect. Conservatives know their power in talk radio, cable television and publishing, and they exult in it. Democratic Senator Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota recently commissioned a study of a week's worth of programming by the nation...
...keep things simple, consider a low-expense, blended index fund like Dreyfus Small Cap Stock Index, a top performer (up 2% a year the past three years). That will give you diversification, including value and growth stocks. For a more pointed approach, lean toward top-performing small-cap growth funds like Buffalo Small Cap (up 9% a year the past three years) and Liberty Acorn USA (up 8% a year). They're more leveraged to a recovery--without which small stocks of any kind are a bad bet anyway...