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McAfee admits that because it is difficult to navigate the line between being a friendly face and an authority figure, tutors have to work hard not to slide to an extreme side...
...gentlest of pokes. "We as a nation can't afford to make Barney Rubble investments in a George Jetson world," Joe Lieberman said last week. But this oblique comparison between George Bush and a cartoon caveman was too much for Bush to let slide. "Americans," he huffed in response, "are tired of the name calling...
...talking about shin splints and cuboid-bone displacements. We're talking about something really serious: public humiliation. Earlier this year, when R.-and-B. star Sisqo was on tour with the boy band 'N Sync, he would regularly attend after-parties in area clubs. Invariably, a local hotshot would slide up to him for a dance-floor face-off. "I would pretty much get challenged every night," says Sisqo, who is known for the impishly kinetic footwork in his videos. "Someone would go in the middle and start spinning on their head and jumping around and flipping around and then...
KEEPING TABS Letting the rent go this month? That could cost you down the road. Rentport Inc. is collecting data from landlords on the timeliness of their tenants. While most are diligent about making their credit-card and car-lease payments on time, an estimated 5% slide on their rent checks, knowing it won't affect their credit rating. But now all three major credit-reporting agencies will be provided with this information. Rentport says tenants who pay their rent on time will improve their credit history. Certainly, using the data to avoid renting to potential deadbeats will help...
Curiously, some technicians put more weight on the Dow's inability to rally past old levels than they do on its ability to hold firm on declines. Hence they tend to be bearish. The NASDAQ slide since mid-July bolsters that view. And McCabe notes that speculative fever remains high, evident in a vibrant IPO market. John McGinley, editor of Technical Trends, worries about the recent slide in margin debt--money borrowed to buy stocks. You'd think a decline in that figure would be healthy, signaling that investors are more cautious. But McGinley reads the decline from the March...