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...savvy fund managers actually came out ahead. The Oppenheimer Ninety- Ten fund rose nearly 8% in the last two weeks of October, largely because it invested in put options, which appreciate when stock prices drop. When the market started to recover, many fund managers began to scoop up bargains. Neff's Windsor Fund, for example, bought $800 million worth of stocks. "When everyone is panicking and stock values are depressed, of such circumstances are opportunities born," he says. "We are buying aggressively, and we will continue...
...haven't already seen Harvey, here's the scoop: Elwood, who lives with his goofy socialite sister, Veta Louise, and sourfaced niece, Myrtle Mae, is convinced that his best friend is a 6-foot-tall white rabbit named Harvey. Well, gee, folks, the only problem is that no one else can see Harvey, and Veta and Myrtle think poor Elwood's gone a little soft upstairs, so they take him to see a couple of wacky psychiatrists, Drs. Sanderson and Chumley, and that's when the hysterical antics begin...
When a reporter and photographer from Stern, the West German mass-circulation weekly, arrived at Room 317 in Geneva's Beau-Rivage Hotel last week for an interview with Politician Uwe Barschel, they got a bigger scoop than they bargained for. The journalists found Barschel, 43, who had recently resigned as minister-president of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, sitting in the bathtub, clothed, upright and very much dead...
...Iranian navy and plan to stock it with cold kegs of beer. Then, when we spot a warship, we'll cruise right in front of it and drop these kegs off the stern. The sailors on the warship will then radio us their Mastercard or Visa numbers and scoop up the kegs. It's sure to be a moneymaker...
When the Chicago Sun-Times announced a nationwide search to replace Ann Landers last February, Wall Street Journal Reporter Jeffrey Zaslow, 28, decided to get the inside scoop by becoming one of the 12,000 applicants. "I was looking for an angle," he recalls. Zaslow not only got the story, he got the job. Beginning July 1, the paper will feature not one but two successors to the nation's best-known advice columnist, who will continue to write her own column at the rival Chicago Tribune. The other lucky selectee is Diane Crowley, 47, a divorced lawyer with...