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...When the stock market was flying six year ago, some folks looked at their soaring portfolios and concluded they had enough money to retire--only to have to burrow back into work after the Internet bubble popped. Now another set of aspiring retirees, this one reveling in inflated home values, may be in for a similar rude awakening...
...classic image of the TV superfan is the minutiae-obsessed, Vulcan-eared Star Trek fan, played by Jon Lovitz opposite William Shatner in a classic Saturday Night Live skit. Today the Lovitzization of entertainment is widespread. When Lost used stock footage from Norway to depict the founder of the Hanso Foundation--the apparent prime mover behind its conspiracy--Norwegian fans went nuts speculating over their homeland's connection to the mystery...
...cynical as [the son] Chick is in the book. What he's saying is that if you put all of your stock in your dream coming true, then you're going to be disappointed. Because there is no one dream. You could have a dream career, but you could have a horrible family life. You could have a dream wife, but how you spend your days is miserable. Waiting around for a particular dream to come true is to be potentially very frustrated...
Although neither Facebook nor Yahoo has confirmed the report, Yahoo’s stock rose 0.5 percent to $25.76 when the news appeared in yesterday morning’s Journal. Rumors that Facebook was in talks with Yahoo, Viacom, and Microsoft have been floating around for months...
...your britches with those colorful plastic animals that adorn the Kong’s signature spirit, the Scorpion Bowl. According to page 336 of this year’s Harvard Student Agencies Unofficial Guide to Life at Harvard (read: one big, sometimes inaccurate advertisement, see page 9), you should stock up and “donate the little plastic animals to UC Vice President Annie [R.] Riley [’07]’s collection.” “We started collecting them last fall,” says Riley, “but not very diligently...