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...years ago, it was fashionable to shun foreign investments, not just because U.S. stocks were the toast of the world but, some reasoned, because you get international diversification by owning global companies such as General Electric and Gillette or the mutual funds that hold them. That logic always sounded a bit twisted to me. When the air gets let out of a market, few stocks are spared, no matter where they derive their profits. Gillette and GE, for example, have been cut in half from their highs...
...Corps of Discovery had arrived back in St. Louis in 1806, the residents "Huzzared three cheers." But they otherwise did not seem to know what to make of this crew or its achievement. Two nights later, they feted the captains at William Christy's inn. There they raised toasts to, among others, President Jefferson ("the polar star of discovery")...Christopher Columbus ("his hardihood, perseverence and merit")...and Agriculture and Industry ("The farmer is the best support of government"). But when the revelers got to the captains in the 18th and final toast, they seemed to be at a loss...
...siren. Koyanagi not only resembles Alicia Keys in appearance, but she's got similar pipes too. Koyanagi's smooth ballads and hip-hop dance track Boyz Don't Cry are worthy additions to any R. and B. collection. Most female J-Pop music is as heartfelt as sliced toast. In Koyanagi's case, her soulful, ballsy croon sounds genuine, albeit incomprehensible at times. That Koyanagi sings in English-a language she does not understand-makes the album an even greater achievement...
...checked out. But U.S. officials have a reason for publicly attributing to him many of their leads, whether they originate with him or not. "It declares to his old friends that he's turned colors and come over to our side," says one. "That means he's toast, and he knows it. He doesn't have any friends back home, so he might as well make some here." The ploy may or may not work, but it seems that the Gitmo interrogations, at least, are bearing fruit...
...like Commodus, Gotti, who died of cancer in a prison hospital last week at 61, made up for his shortcomings with entertainments. He threw Fourth of July parties for his neighbors in Queens, N.Y., making himself the toast of the locals. (His folk-heroism was always a peculiarly parochial, New York City phenomenon, like Ed Koch or egg creams.) He made like a mobster out of central casting, plunging into night life wearing $2,000 suits (hence his nickname "the Dapper Don") and taunting the feds by being acquitted three times (hence, "the Teflon Don") before the charges stuck...