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...bonds, which lose value as inflation rises. You also might want to shift 5% to 10% of your portfolio into commodities to take advantage of the first robust market for raw materials in a quarter century. How do you do that? Leave actual pork-belly trading to the pros. You can brace for inflation with mutual funds that invest directly in commodities, like Pimco Commodity RealReturn Strategy (up 43% in the past 12 months) and Oppenheimer Real Asset (up 35%). Funds that invest in stocks of companies in the raw-materials business include T. Rowe Price...
...Harvard record-holder in eight of nine receiving categories and one of the top wide receivers in Ivy League history—was expected to be picked late in the draft. Instead, he ended up waiting for a free-agent signing to be his ticket into the pros...
According to the source, the interim report includes estimated costs for each of these scenarios, which range from $173 million (three houses in Allston) to $462 million (eight). The report also proposes pros and cons for each scenario, suggesting strengths of some options—like ameliorating overcrowding and accommodating growth—and pointing out problems of others, such as transportation issues and negative effects on former Quadlings...
Many makeup pros are literally spray-painting their clients' faces, applying a thin layer of makeup to cover the surface with thousands of tiny dots (think ink-jet printers) that conceal flaws and don't smudge. Others are working more closely than ever with lighting directors, hiding extra lights in cabinets and other secret places on a set so actors' faces are bathed in more brightness and look softer. "I am always telling Christine, 'Keep your chin up. Stay in the light,'" says Bunch...
Incarnating amiability with an undercoat of evil can be a benison to an actor. Unfortunately for them, Dogville's old pros (including Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, Harriet Andersson, John Hurt, Stellan Skarsgaard, Patricia Clarkson and Blair Brown) have only attitudes, not characters, to play, and these are as flat as the lines on the floor. It's not a pretty sight: gifted actors with big ambitions and nothing purposeful to do. Only two things keep one's eyes on the screen: the spectacle of the gorgeous Kidman soldiering on as Grace's regality is defiled, and the suspicion that this...