Word: steins
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...being switched to screw tops by next year. "There's nothing romantic about a corked bottle of wine," he says. Unfortunately, screw tops render obsolete the second snottiest aspect of wine: storing your bottles in a rack on their sides to keep the corks moist. --By Joel Stein...
...nabbed Abagnale. "But it's the best one-man show you'll possibly ever see." In the movie, Abagnale's character is just as entertaining. "He did steal 2 1/2 million bucks," Hanks says. "And yet you're constantly rooting for him." How could he not brag? --By Joel Stein...
...things about racial segregation, you would tell Future Boy to get back on his dorky scooter and go home. And if he told you that one of the year's biggest European news stories was going to be the supposed rise of anti-Semitism, you'd tell him Joel Stein is actually a Dutch name. Maybe we're living in the past because we feel all freaked out about the future. It just feels good to retreat to topics previously explored and controversies already settled. Instead of devoting extra airtime to terrorism in Bali and Israel, unrest in Venezuela, nukes...
...finances secure, Mather also hosted a free 21-and-over pre-formal Stein Club, open to members of all three Houses...
...more than 1,100 funds out of existence over the past two years, either by shutting them down and sending whatever money is left back to investors or by merging the assets into other funds. Remember Scudder Growth Opportunity? It has been liquidated. How about Federated Aggressive Growth and Stein Roe International? They have been merged into Federated Kaufmann and Columbia International Stock, respectively. Still to come: the probable disappearance of $1.3 billion worth of growth and international funds from the Berger fund family now that Janus, Berger's corporate cousin, is scheduled to take over the assets...