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...crash remarkably well, considering the enormous size of the fund he had to handle. Says Barton Biggs, a global strategist for Morgan Stanley: "Lynch is still the most consistent mutual-fund manager in the country, even if he does not outperform the market every time. None of us are supermen in a prolonged bear market." Agrees Anthony Thatcher, a portfolio manager at Scudder Stevens & Clark: "Lynch's reputation, though somewhat tarnished, is not obliterated...
...Wake up, people. God is dead. Let us dispense with Christian morality, and prepare ourselves for the arrival of supermen...
...kids in the audience seemed to prefer the brightly hued and wildly imaginative entries in the aesthetic design and aerobatics events. There were butterflies, dragonflies, bats, flying Supermen and airborne pineapples, as well as F-14 scale models, Star Wars fighters and twin-rotor helicopters. Curtis Haynie, 8, of Hood River, Ore., said his favorite was the slime-green "Flying Lizard," which, according to handling instructions written by its owner, should be fed "small rodents, twice daily." Contest sponsors emphasized that a child's interest in paper planes may lead to a career in aerospace, and even to breakthroughs...
...novels of the mid-1920s, Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923) and The Plumed Serpent (1926), veered toward the worship of supermen, blood-consciousness and dark gods. Only in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), his last novel, did he return to the subject of men and women in love that he had discarded with Mr. Noon. Then, throwing caution to the winds, he opened that bedroom door completely and apparently for good...
Just as the stereotype of Jews in the 1920s as mentally deficient was wrong and eventually abandoned, so should the stereotype of Asian-Americans as one-dimensional, technical supermen be exposed for its inaccuracy and discarded. It is the duty of publications like Newsweek on Campus to take the first steps towards the dissolution of such stereotypes...