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...idea behind StockJungle.com's Community Intelligence Fund. Everyday investors like Dimler can sign up and start naming the stocks they think should be included in the fund. The picks are ranked and filtered through computer programs to determine if they should be added to the portfolio. A big stake in selected technology and drug stocks, bought late last year and in early 2000, pushed the fund's returns past those of the Dow, the NASDAQ and the S&P 500. This year, StockJungle.com's Community Intelligence Fund is up nearly 22%. Not bad for a bunch of amateurs...
Just last month, when Sprint's proposed merger with WorldCom was blocked by antitrust regulators, Sommer sent a marriage proposal to Sprint, where he already has a 10% stake. No dice. The plan was immediately attacked by a group of U.S. Senators who vowed to thwart any effort by DT, which is 58% owned by the German government and not exactly renowned for being customer friendly, from taking control of Sprint. Their position has angered the European Union, which calls it a violation of a 1997 global-trade deal and is threatening to retaliate...
...Summer school is an eight-week program, not a four year program," Queen said. "So our long-term commitment is significantly less. There's not that much at stake for the student, so asking a student to leave is not as momentous a decision...
Putting an end to the conflict once and for all is Israel's objective. But not just Israel's. It is America's too. The U.S. has no great stake in the territorial details of any settlement. It has an enormous stake, however, in an end to war in the region...
...game hardly mattered. Playoff berths weren't at stake. It was just an off-season scrimmage for a bunch of preteen hockey nuts, hoping, perhaps, to add some power to their slapshots. On July 5, from the stands of the Burbank Ice Arena, in Reading, Mass., Thomas Junta watched his 10-year-old son shoot the puck. The kid wasn't faring well. Though contact was forbidden, an elbow nearly smashed his nose. With play getting rougher, Junta, 42, a truck driver, called down to the only adult on the ice, Michael Costin, demanding that he intervene. Costin, whose three...