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...catch up. "He's come to win the war, not kill everyone in every single battle," says Armstrong's coach, Chris Carmichael. Armstrong, now clearly the strongest rider in the world, is being careful not to take glory unnecessarily from the other riders. Even Texans know when not to tick people...
Batterson: I feel fairly good. I'm a little concerned that interest rates may tick up more. That could cause the stock market to decline further, which is not good for the investment business...
...amounts to nothing more than a vendetta against people in their golden years. Did anyone happen to notice that two of the first three suckers kicked off the island were older than Moses? Dammit, CBS, we're old and cranky enough. Don't you know any better than to tick us off? We've got more money floating around in Washington on any given day than you guys make in 20 sweep weeks. So straighten up and fly right or, dammit, we'll have our buddies over at the FCC close you down faster than you can say 'Geritol...
...move out on the yield spectrum. Stay away from 30-year bonds until it's clear that long-term rates have peaked. A better bet--one that will lend your portfolio stability, win big if long-term rates fall soon and yet won't hurt much if rates tick higher--is bonds with maturities of three to seven years. Consider an intermediate-term bond fund. "They give you 95% of the yield of the long bond [30-year] with only two-thirds of the risk," says Tom Orechhio of financial planners Greenbaum & Orechhio in Oradell...
...stage of the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater is full of men in black suits and women with Marge Simpson-size hair. To the quiet tick of a deep-voiced drum, they strip to their skivvies. Then the four percussionists in the pit lay down a loud backbeat, and the half-clothed dancers start flying crazily through the air. They look like mall rats at a suburban prom--but their airy lifts and arabesques are straight out of Swan Lake...