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Reshuffling will continue next year. Beijing has announced that for the first time it will enforce a retirement age for Cabinet ministers. Though some oldsters will resist, perhaps as many as 20 new ministers will be appointed to replace the retirees. It should be a major round of logrolling and alliance building...
...have time, the way to beat the system is to forget what's going to happen: keep buying and resist the urge to sell when prices eventually tumble. With baby boomers saving for retirement, odds are stocks will go much higher over the next 20 years. It's silly to jump in and out and risk missing big rallies. The declines will be overcome. But human nature hasn't changed much since Adam and Eve. Many people now putting their life savings in stocks will instinctively move to protect them if they sense lasting trouble. Rather than lock in lush...
...John Driscoll '99) has a mountain climber's ax sticking out of his skull, although he doesn't realize until Mrs. Trotsky (Elena Schneider '99) points it out. Although "Variations on the Death of Trotsky" isn't as witty or keenly observant as "Sure Thing," it's hard to resist lines like "maybe he was just hot-to-Trotsky." Driscoll was appropriately ridiculous and Schneider hilarious as the wise-cracking wife...
...tall." In his 1987 book, Time Flies, Cosby makes a mock complaint about Ennis being a reluctant athlete ("My music is the theme from Chariots of Fire and Ennis' theme is Bidin' My Time"). But he admitted, "I could not resist luring my son Ennis out to the track because I wanted to see how my genes looked in a newer model of me." When Ennis was in high school in Pennsylvania, Cosby would take a break from his busy schedule to catch his son playing football...
...Best Websites of 1996" surprised me. Almost all were from the commercial domain; private and personal Websites were virtually ignored. There are some first-class personal sites. Want to receive help for your palmtop computer that does not interest its maker anymore? Go to private sites. Want action to resist some foolish political decisions? Want information about some real writers and artists? Support for a major illness? The list goes on and on. The backbone of the Net is still the private individuals connected to it. ETIENNE BORGERS Singapore...