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...Morning; $12.98 At 25, Conor Oberst, a.k.a. Bright Eyes, is expert at turning his disenchantment into fuel. He's not wild about himself or his country at the moment. But instead of sounding desperate or polemical, the best of these quiet, well-observed songs do something far tougher-create a mood. Lua, about seduction and loneliness, feels like a shameful walk home on a winter morning, while Landlocked Blues starts as a breakup song and meanders its way into an antiwar ballad. The link, at least by Oberst's reckoning, is futility, and whether you agree with his politics...
...been working overtime to catch the scammers. Flush with funding to root out nonprofits connected to terrorism and given a new institutional mandate to do a tougher job, its Exempt Organizations Division has added 160 auditors over the past two years. Since August 2004, according to Mark Everson, commissioner of the IRS, the agency has contacted 1,240 organizations with questions about how they pay their executives. So far, 719 returns have come under audit for suspicious accounting. State regulators, who have traditionally policed nonprofits, are pushing for new laws. The House and Senate held hearings this summer on nonprofit...
...there's more to this unusual fund company than congenital contrarianism. Brokers and clients prize its funds because over long periods they deliver steady gains--lagging in hot markets but shining in tougher times. "I've been putting clients in their funds for 15 years," says Larry Ginsburg, a financial planner in Oakland, Calif. In the downturn of 2001-02, American Funds' Investment Co. of America ($78 billion) fell just 9.7% a year as the market dropped 17.2% a year. Since then, the fund has risen 14% a year, just a shade behind the market's 14.8% annual return. Growth...
...forwards who can rebound out of position. When the rebounds come off short and the name of the game is boxing out, Harvard dominates the glass. But when the misses bounce far from the hoop—as can happen in facilities with harder rims—quicker and tougher opposing teams claim the majority of the boards.“I wouldn’t look too much into [the rims],” Stehle said. “But it’s probably good for a couple rebounds a game.”BALANCING ACTThrough six games...
...some quick reactions. The constant pressure put on by the Wildcats finally broke through in each case.“Their forwards were cycling the puck well down low and putting a lot of pressure on our defense,” Boe said. “That made it tougher for them to get it up to our wings. They held the blue line really well, so that made it tough to get out of the zone.”PARITY STRIKES AGAINWhen Minnesota-Duluth took the number-one ranking in this past weekend’s polls, it seemed...