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...Legg Mason Value Trust has beaten the S&P 500 stock index for 14 years running. A brilliant polymath whose intellectual passions range from chaos theory to Wittgenstein, Miller has trounced his rivals by thinking differently. But lately the investor, who is based in Baltimore, Md., has looked a tad less clever. In the past two years, oil and gas stocks surged as the price of oil nearly tripled, to $70 per bbl., yet Miller missed the entire runup. "It's a mistake we should not have made," he says, and he's paying for it. With Value Trust down...
PLAYERS TO WATCH WR Brandon Bowser (Sr.), WR Pete Chromiak (Sr.), DE Chris Sullivan (Sr.), DE Bill Beechum (Sr.), SS Keenan Shaw (Sr.), FS Tad Crawford (Jr.), CB Prosper Nwokocha...
...Spanish artist Pablo, recently bought the 540,000-sq-m island of Petalas nearby. Much of the growing enthusiasm stems from changes to Greek property laws in 2003 that allow foreigners to buy islands for as little as $670,000. Is there a catch? Island shopping could prove a tad risky in the eastern Aegean, because some outcrops are contested by Greece's longtime rival Turkey. And all buyers need sales approval from the Greek Agriculture, Merchant Marine, Defense and Culture Ministries. But if Greece and Turkey are at loggerheads over these Aegean gems, they must be worth the bureaucratic...
...Open romp appeared over. Robredo had already won the first set, and Blake, the man who outran the quickest tennis player on earth, Rafael Nadal, in a stunning upset on Saturday, had clay feet on the hard court surface. Blake's best shot, a blazing forehand, was a tad slow. Even his rowdy cheering section in Suite 236 of Arthur Ashe Stadium, clad in baby-blue t-shirts and self-dubbed the "J-Block," seemed a bit deflated...
...18th-birthday party at a swank Manhattan nightclub, pack it with 500 people and hire Maroon 5 to rock out. And a normal girl certainly doesn't walk the tightrope between sports and sex, sparking a mini-furor at a Toronto tourney because her two stadium banners were a tad too revealing...