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...panel, however, the combatants were more complimentary and expressed a greater mutual respect for one another...
...upwards of $1,000 in Bucharest and $5,000 in Rome, plus prostitution profits generated along the way. The beauty of the trade, as one investigator puts it, lies in the fact that the victims can be sold and resold, producing income almost indefinitely. "It's better than mutual funds," quips the official. The iom figures the worldwide annual turnover from sex industry trafficking ranges from $6 billion to $12 billion...
...Nevertheless, lawyers say, such "bad boy" clauses in prenuptial agreements are becoming more popular for couples who think they can put a dollar value on infidelity. Florida courts are currently examining the legality of an agreement signed two years ago by Richard Briggs Bailey, the former chairman of a mutual-funds company, promising his wife Nanette Sexton Bailey $20,000 a month in alimony should he cheat. His now estranged wife is using an unusual method to prove the infidelity: she had the sheets she believed her husband had soiled with another woman tested...
GREEN GIANTS Many investors in socially and environmentally responsible mutual funds profited last year from a good conscience. Fourteen of 16 funds with assets of more than $100 million earned top marks from the nation's leading ratings firms. Just 11 scored this high a year earlier. That these funds performed so well in a year when the average U.S. stock fund lost 1.7% means the only green many other fund managers saw was their own envy...
...whose nerves are dangerously frayed. Indeed, forming a unity government is clearly an attempt by Israel's two major parties to calm the panic in domestic politics (once Sharon is sworn in next week, the country will have had four prime ministers in five years) and act in their mutual interest to restore the traditional Labor-Likud duopoly of power...