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...business. (San Diego police say they have no record of a charge against him.) Though for the next six years Modesto sent MaryAnn his $900-a-month Navy pension, she says he stopped in late 1995. Forced onto welfare and food stamps, she moved to Eureka, Ill., to be near another son, Christopher, and to settle in public housing. About a month ago, Cunanan's mother returned quietly to National City, Calif., a working-class suburb of San Diego...
Cohen is famously high-minded, a writer of poetry and fiction, and the general has his courtly side as well. Shelton, 55, grew up on a farm near the North Carolina hamlet of Speed (pop. 100), where he met his wife Carolyn in the fifth grade; their home life is said to be "rock solid...
...into stock-index funds in torrents in recent years as investors have caught on to their appeal: index funds cost little to run, compared to actively managed funds, so more of the profits are passed on to investors. Index funds are also easy to track since they move in near perfect tandem with popular indexes such as the Dow Jones industrial average or the Standard & Poor's 500. And for three years running, returns on the index funds have trounced that of the average stock fund. No wonder assets in stock-index funds have increased tenfold in five years...
Unemployment: Less than 3% throughout the decade Growth: Strong; 4% yearly average Inflation: Plunged from 8% to near zero...
DIED. SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH, 64, billionaire financier; of a heart attack after a long battle with cancer; at his villa near Malaga, Spain. Goldsmith made his nut with pharmaceuticals and groceries and parlayed it into a fortune as a corporate raider in the '80s, acquiring high-profile targets. A legendary gambler, his business motto was "If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on it." Late in life he started one of his own, founding Britain's Referendum Party, which opposed the European common currency. His warm and very extended family included his third wife...