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Step 1: diversify. This is no time to have a lot of eggs in one basket. Generally you are free to reallocate stock bought with your contributions. If you've got 20% of your assets in your employer's stock, shift a portion into diversified stock mutual funds or, to get conservative, intermediate-term bond funds or guaranteed-income contracts. Stock your employer kicked in generally can't be touched. But some plans will let you reallocate those shares after you've been with the company a specified length of time or have reached...
...though many educators claim the test was unfair because it was not geared specifically to school curriculums. In Massachusetts, which introduced its exam last spring, more than 80% of fourth-graders got a failing score or a "needs improvement" in English; half of all 10th-graders failed the math portion of the test. Governor Paul Cellucci calls the performance "unacceptable." Maybe so, but it's not surprising, says Harvard lecturer S. Paul Reville. "We were having difficulty reaching lower standards, and now we've raised the bar by a factor...
...tone of Knowles' letter was predominantly upbeat. With the $965 million goal for FAS' portion of the University's five-year Capital Campaign more than 90 percent met, Knowles spent less ink on the dire financial straits of FAS than in past years...
...ECAC) captured its fifth Beanpot championship last night, blanking Boston College 9-0 at Northeastern's Matthews Arena. Like so many of its games this year, the Crimson dominated from start to finish, refusing to allow the Eagles (7-15-2, 3-13-2 ECAC) to tarnish any portion of its victory...
...People have him all wrong, he says. He majored in business management at Howard. He's not just about gangsta rap.Sounds from his new album fill the room. One song is based on a bit from the score to Rocky. Another, a sweeping, elegiac number, uses a portion of Do You Know Where You're Going To? That's what he's about, Combs says. Classic pop. "I'm living my life right," he says. "So when it comes time for me to be judged, I can be judged...