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...over very high yield. I hold Dominion [4.8%] and Southern Co. [4.8%]. A third core industry would be oil. My preference is Royal Dutch Petroleum [3.5%]. Other core holdings, with a little more risk, are telecom and tobacco. I own SBC [4.5%] and Verizon [4.3%]. You have an interesting tension in terms of whether they get into the long-distance business or lose their local businesses. But there is a lot of yield there that compensates you. Altria Group, formerly Philip Morris [6.7%], is one of my top-10 holdings...
...Elsewhere in Asia, the escalating tension has everybody scrambling to figure out how worried they should be. North Korean despot Kim Jong Il is known for using belligerent histrionics to blackmail his neighbors for the aid he needs to stay in power. He's got the missiles and the million-man army to make threatening gestures credible. The world is keenly aware that the country is a cornered, starving wolf, short of fuel, food and just about everything else. But with a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis still nowhere in sight and Pyongyang stating it is fully...
...greatest risk is that with the U.S. preoccupied by Iraq, the two sides will continue talking past each other. That will allow room for a misstep or accident to be dangerously misinterpreted by the other side. As tension builds, it might not take more than a few bullets fired in the DMZ or a patrol boat straying across a disputed demarcation line to trigger full mobilization. North Korea's next move could be the test firing of a missile like the one that flew over Japan in 1998. Other even more dangerous provocations are possible. Gordon Flake, a Korea expert...
...unrealistic scenarios. This not to imply that action is given short shrift, for the fighting is frequent and furious. Nor does the action serve some obligatory masturbatory fix; he cleverly avoids the tedium that accompanies extended battle scenes by subordinating them to the plot. The novel maintains a fantastic tension throughout, with just the right number of pauses to let the reader catch his breath. The tone is spot-on; the ever-present sense of doom hovers cloudlike throughout, as befits a novel of war. Roberts manages to depict the war realistically and beautifully, reminding us that actions have consequences...
...waiter at John Harvard’s and a Cambridge native who has been going to the Kong since he was 18. “But I don’t think that has anything to do with the fighting, or that there’s any tension between townies and Harvard kids...