Word: legend
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...last few years are clearly unique," says investing legend Peter Lynch, vice chairman of fund company Fidelity Management Research. "Huge companies have been beloved." In that environment, fund managers with even small doses of non-index stocks don't have much chance of beating the indexes. But, Lynch notes, active fund managers have sparkled at times, as in 1991-93, when the postrecession economy was lifting small stocks fastest. In 1991 the average fund rose 37%, vs. 30% for the S&P 500, and 60% of funds beat the benchmark...
HOSPITALIZED. FRANK SINATRA, 81, singing legend; after suffering what his doctor called an "uncomplicated" heart attack; in Los Angeles...
Siedlicki was chosen from a field of more than 100 applicants on Dec. 19 to succeed Bulldog football legend Carm Cozza as the head of Yale's feeble football team...
...thing right for sure: if she's going to cut out all the sex, then it damn well had better be funny. Thankfully, it is--"The Mirror Has Two Faces" has some of the sharpest one-liners around, mostly at the hands of the incredible supporting cast. Silver-screen legend George Segal is brilliant as Gregory's womanizing buddy, a suave and sarcastic anthropology professor who admittedly prefers T-and-A over IQ: "I gave my last girlfriend a copy of Farewell to Arms--she thought it was a diet book." Lauren Bacall is also superb as Rose's mother...
Arlo was born in 1947 to folk legend Woody Guthrie and dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie of the Martha Graham company. Arlo emerged from his father's shadow with his debut of Alice's Restaurant Massacre at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967. Although he would take a number of tacks in the years to follow, Arlo defined his essential sensibility with this loquacious, sardonic, mock-shaggy dog approach to song writing. In 1969 the album Alice's Restaurant was made into a movie in which Guthrie starred as himself. In the 27 years since, he has released album after album...