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...smartest guy in real estate isn?t necessarily the neighbor who used his home equity to leverage into a second home, which promptly doubled in value. We all have one of those lucky neighbors, and that?s an impressive result, for sure. But it doesn?t come close to the real estate home run that mutual fund manager Ron Muhlenkamp hit. He wasn?t buying homes before they took off; he was buying the stocks of companies that build them. Since he jumped into housing stocks in 1999-2000, his favorites have increased sevenfold and-pay attention-Muhlenkamp is still...
...Nuts and Death to Smoochy, Jon Stewart won't be confused with Jimmy. But big-screen chops aren't essential to the job; Johnny Carson was a five-time winner as Oscar host. Besides, the new guy has miles of charm, glib ad-lib-ability and the planet's smartest comedy writers. If Stewart can't make this year's Oscar show the wittiest in memory ... well, the Academy could turn next year to another cool dude over at Comedy Central. Paging Stephen Colbert...
...could still cull a comely quintet of nominees from the current gang of 15--including Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Mad Hot Ballroom, Murderball, Rize and, of course, March of the Penguins. Perhaps Herzog can take solace in the fact that, as those penguins proved, persistence is everything...
...flat income tax; and from the outset of the first term of President Vladimir Putin, who appointed him economic adviser in 2000, he has been outspoken in his efforts to curb state interference in the economy, especially in the all-important energy sector. "He's one of the smartest people in Russia," says William Browder, founder of a Moscow-based investment fund. But last week Illarionov, 44, abruptly resigned. "When I took the job, we spoke about pursuing a liberal economic policy," he explained. "Now, the state has evolved in quite the opposite direction." In an interview with Time...
...floor,” Delaney-Smith said. “[Lackner] for whatever reason was making some late, poor defensive decisions which maybe got her into foul trouble, or maybe she tried to do a little too much which got her into trouble. Generally she is one of our smartest defenders. So I felt that hurt us. Having her sit so much in the first half, I wasn’t happy about that.”The Crimson went in to the locker room at halftime down 34-30.“Our defense was not very good...