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...from la patrie, they may just have cooled off. The Argentineans had too much to cope with. It's very hard to play while carrying on your shoulders the hopes of nearly 40 million economically depressed people who look to you as the only glimmer of light in a stark daily landscape...
...investing in either). And TIPS guarantee you can't lose money after inflation. They're no longer cheap but still yield up to 3.1 percentage points over the current inflation rate. Put them in your IRA or other retirement account, where their quirky tax features won't "drive you stark raving mad," as Loomis Sayles Bond Fund manager Daniel Fuss puts it. You can buy tips directly from the government, at www.publicdebt.treas.gov/sec/seciis.htm or in a fund from Vanguard or Pimco...
...spotting a potential movie star. He and Adele had danced through hit Broadway shows for a dozen years, but Adele was the star; Fred was "and." In "Make Believe: The Broadway Musical in the 1920s," Ethan Mordden passes along a typical notice for the sibs' "Lady, Be Good": "Stark Young spent the first half of his Times review entirely on her - 'Adele Astaire Fascinates,' ran the headline - and could say no better of Fred than that he 'participates enthusiastically and successfully in most of Miss Astaire's dance offerings'." When audiences looked at Adele and Fred, they certainly thought...
...White Russians arrived first. The disintegration of their homeland forced many to flee to Harbin, in northern China, and then on to Shanghai. Some, such as Admiral Stark and his sailors, took their battle fleets, sailed south and parked themselves opposite the Bund, commanding attention by their numbers and the size of their guns...
...OUTBACK BARD The west coast of Australia has long drawn some of the country's greatest writers, photographers and artists. But few have captured the essence of this stark, ruggedly beautiful territory like local resident and author Tim Winton. His most famous work, Cloudstreet, begins on the Abrolhos Islands; his latest novel, Dirt Music, is set in a fictional lobster-fishing town along this coast. Tuck your guidebook into the glove compartment and go traveling with Winton. He expertly steers the reader through a landscape of contradictions as harsh and tender as the people who populate...