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CONGRATS ON YOUR THINGAMAJIG Academy Awards, nominations for which are announced this week, are easy to recognize. To really impress folks, you need to be able to name the obscure baubles on their shelves too. Match these trophies with their honors. The Spielbergs are not eligible. a) People's Choice Award (for film and TV); b) Soap Opera Award; c) Palme d'Or (from the Cannes Film Festival); d) Screen Actors Guild Award; e) VH1 Fashion Award; f) Country Music Award...
...rule on saving for retirement was that you should gradually reduce the percentage of stocks in your portfolio and increase the percentage of bonds. In fact, a common recommendation still used by some planners is to match your percentage of bonds to your age: at your 65th birthday hold 65% bonds (or bonds and cash) and 35% stocks. But a typical bond, the five-year Treasury, historically yields only about 5.3% and yields even less today--about 4.5%. The broad stock market, in contrast, has returned an annual average of about 11% a year since 1926, 18% a year since...
...higher interest rates, but...if only they could see what you can do to anyone foolish enough to line up inside against that serve! You are 72 years old, and your tennis game is still one of your great pleasures, and surely you have been looking forward to this match all week. But the phone is ringing, and because you are chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, you answer. "This is the Treasury operator," says the voice. "Please stand...
...meet someone online, but it's just as tough as the old, analog ways. Consider Match.com a $90-a-year service that boasts that 1,300 of the 1.4 million people who have registered since 1995 have married. Sounds impressive until you realize that the chance of finding a match made in heaven is less than 1 in 1,000. I got dozens of responses to my ad on Yahoo (which is free), but most contenders were less appealing than the last-call crowd at a singles bar. A startling number of men thought the most important thing...
While the key match-up will take place in Harvard's offensive zone, the game could be decided by what happens on the other end of the ice. Brown is fourth in the conference in scoring at 4.70 goals a game but its highest individual scorer is a defenseman--Mounsey (11-17-28). Junior Jordan Jiskra (11-15-26), who is 27th in the conference in points, leads all Bear forwards in scoring...