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...READ THE FINE PRINT I invariably read a company's report from back to front. The stuff they don't want us to find is buried in the back--starting with the footnotes. Read about the company's pension plan; if its projected annual rate of return is more than 7.5%, a shortfall could bite into future earnings, and "you should be concerned," says Lehman Bros. accounting expert Robert Willens. Watch for off-balance-sheet liabilities, a fancy term for financial risks that the company hopes will never come home to roost, and for development costs that are capitalized instead...
...time, relations grew friendly, even intimate. The men of the corps were soldiers, not saints, and their commanders were realistic men, not cartoon superheroes. Lewis carried a stockpile of medicine, including potions to treat venereal diseases. He found more than a few occasions to administer the stuff...
...story is the stuff of fiction: the daughter of Somali desert nomads, Waris ("desert flower" in Somali) Dirie fled her family when she was about 13 to escape marriage to a man old enough to be her grandfather. She landed in London as a servant to wealthy relatives and worked as a cleaner at McDonald's before becoming a supermodel, a James Bond girl, a U.N. special ambassador and a best-selling writer. Her second book, Desert Dawn, was published in Britain last week. Hard to believe? Only until you meet Dirie. A warm but somehow elusive woman...
...think our stuff might be a little water damaged,” Johnson joked as firefighters pulled a badly burned and waterlogged guitar amp out of the back...
SHANI SAMLAL Age 19 Queens "Well, initially (I was concerned) due to all the speculations and warnings and stuff, but those have been around for a while, so I guess it's more wondering what might happen, if something does, but nothing out of the ordinary. I'm not sure, really. I don't want to predict something and have it come true. I'm probably just going to stay in Queens; I'm probably not going to be around the city. It's nothing due to the warnings or anything...