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...TIME's religion writer, was looking for a way to write about the state of atheism in America when he became intrigued with an even more fascinating story: the bizarre disappearance of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, America's best-known nonbeliever. No one has seen O'Hair since, as legend has it, she walked away from an unfinished breakfast in August 1995. Van Biema's pursuit of the missing activist took him to Austin, Texas, where her organization has its headquarters. The mystery deepened when his sources starting contradicting one another. "Those discrepancies roused my curiosity," he says, and formed...
...luncheon's final speaker, who brought this image to bear on the sated crowd at Legend's restaurant, evoked the tournament's 45-year tradition. At the end of the luncheon, as it was at the beginning of the Beanpot, the priority was the game, the tournament determinative of Boston hockey bragging rights...
...annual Beanpot luncheon was held yesterday at Legend's restaurant in the FleetCenter. All four teams competing in the tournament--Harvard, Boston University, Boston College and Northeastern--were represented by their coaches and senior players. The luncheon is an opportunity for the Boston media to interview the coaches and team members. Each coach and captain gave a brief speech assessing their team's season to date, while the captains commented upon the personal importance of the Beanpot and their memories of the tournament. The following are excerpts from those speeches...
...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...
...Bill's praise, Ennis was not perfect--and therein lies the source of the father's heroic legend of the son. Ennis was, of course, as irascible a youngster as they come. In his best seller Fatherhood, Bill Cosby talked about delivering physical discipline to punish the 12-year-old Ennis' lying in school. As usual, Cosby turned it into a joke for his readers: "I...won't say that this will hurt me more than it will hurt you. That would be true only if I turned around and let you hit me." He concluded, "To this...