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...year ago, hit a high of $80.50 this week. Even at a perilous 80 times projected 1998 earnings, it will beat the market, think Wall Street pros. "AOL has won the battle to become the No. 1 brand in home online access," says Keith Benjamin, an analyst at Robertson Stephens...
...Diana was a nanny for my son Patrick for a year, in 1980, when he was one year old," says MARY ROBERTSON, now of Morristown, N.J., but then resident in London, where her husband worked as an executive of an oil company. "I called an agency a friend had recommended. She came to us just as Diana Spencer. She did not tell me that she was seeing Charles. When she returned from vacation in September 1980, she talked with me one morning as I was getting dressed to go to work. We'd chat often; she'd stand...
Diana pondered, then made her decision. "I learned about the engagement when a friend from London called me when the news broke over there," says Robertson, who had moved back to the U.S. by then. "And her only message was, 'Your girl made...
...that sort of insurance is blossoming. The best hedge funds have become as exclusive as Augusta National, and hot managers are the rock stars of the investing world. Among the sexiest: George Soros, whose Quantum Fund has tallied a 33% annual return historically, vs. 7% for stocks; and Julian Robertson, whose Tiger funds are to Park Avenue what fur is to Gstaad...
...controversy becomes consensus only to become controversy again when the new conventional wisdom jells. Take the national debate about divorce. In 1992 Vice President Dan Quayle made his infamous Murphy Brown speech railing against single motherhood and was ridiculed by almost every social observer to the left of Pat Robertson. Less than a year later, social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead published an essay in the Atlantic Monthly titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." Citing studies that tracked the development of children raised by single parents, she identified broken families as Public Enemy No. 1, responsible for a generation...