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...small-stock craze made sense for a while. Large caps were runaway winners in the late 1990s, before the group became insanely overpriced and ultimately collapsed. But now it's the small caps that "have gone about as far as they can go," says Andrew Engel, a portfolio manager at Leuthold Group...
...games of league play, keep themselves sharp, and play a major conference team close.If the Ivies had a postseason tournament, a team following the first path would get upset in the conference tourney far more often than one following the second. And that might be enough incentive to cause runaway league champs to follow that other path.By Saturday night, Penn will likely be fit that runaway profile, but the question remains, in the absence of a conference tournament, which path it will decide to take.—Staff writer Michael R. James can be reached at mrjames@fas.harvard.edu...
...runaway popularity of the “gangsta rap” aesthetic in the 1990s conferred star status on Cube and enabled him to make the transition from recording studios in South Central to film studios in Hollywood. His first major role was in Singleton’s “Boyz,” and the commercial and critical success of that film proved that Cube was a bankable actor. Perhaps seeking to capitalize upon his initial success, Cube’s more recent projects have been increasingly mainstream (read: spineless...
...WITH SWEEPS UNDERWAY, NETWORKS ASK RUNAWAY BRIDE TO RUN AWAY AGAIN" --Fake news headline from THE BOROWITZ REPORT...
...Winter Olympics showcase some of the oddest-looking pairs in sports. Athletes endlessly tout the importance of chemistry, that unseen connection between teammates that boosts performance. Well, there's nothing unseen about the connections between the luge doubles. Or bobsledders: two- or four-person teams bunched together in a runaway rocket, heads buried in one another's backs as if expecting something terrible. Or the pairs figure skaters and ice dancers in their flashy outfits, bodies entwined, handling each other throughout their routines. These athletes aren't conjoined just on the ice. Since most compete in low-revenue sports...