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Here's the essence of it, gang: stocks that soar can also plummet. Sure, in the long run, high risk usually means high reward, and the techs could climb anew. But the long run can be long indeed, and if you hold only a few stocks, there are no guarantees. You could be wiped out. Even if you own a basket of tech stocks, your nest egg could drop 50% or more in the time it takes to order that new BMW. Spreading investments across asset classes reduces such risk and looks dumb only to the tech cultists...
...those senatorial wannabes, Hillary Clinton and New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, both played to type earlier in the tragedy. She called the killing a murder. He lashed out at those who criticized the cops, calling the demonstrations silly, and saw his mayoral approval rating plummet. After the verdict last week, Giuliani reached out to the Diallo family but spent as much energy calling on angry citizens to "put their prejudices and biases aside. We have racism in New York...We also have a vicious form of antipolice bias." The First Lady, who had already apologized for the murder remark...
After a long year, the Crimson had a few answers, but even those took so long in coming that it caused Harvard to plummet from 11-3 (5-1 Ivy) in 1998 to 3-10 (1-5 Ivy) in 1999. Harvard also went from a team unfairly snubbed by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee in 1998 to a squad that just wanted...
...feet a minute ? 10 times faster than the normal rate of descent. Investigators aren?t sure what that says about the cause of the crash, other than that the problem was severe, and the plane was out of control. To TIME aviation correspondent Jerry Hannifin, that final plummet is a sign that the pilot simply took on more than he was qualified for. "Anyone who has flown regularly on the East Coast in summer knows that the horizon can disappear completely in the haze," says Hannifin. One scenario: Kennedy began a normal turn, and then lost sight of the horizon...
After a long year, the Crimson had a few answers, but even those took so long in coming that it caused Harvard to plummet from 11-3 (5-1 Ivy) in 1998 to 3-10 (1-5 Ivy) in 1999. Harvard also went from a team unfairly snubbed by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee in 1998 to a squad that just wanted...