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...famous these days. Eating a rat or sticking a pig on Survivor is enough to get you talked about around the water cooler the next morning. If someone should ever actually get laid by an insignificant other on Temptation Island 2, that would doubtless do the trick too. We tune in to "reality TV" in hope of seeing one or more of our fellow citizens degrade themselves for (mostly) short money and (very) momentary fame. Watching these shows, we shake our head wryly: What are we coming to? Where will it all end? But there's not much conviction...
Well, Buffett was proven right to the tune of billions of dollars. Even if you've got just a few hundred dollars to invest, now is by all means the time to emulate him. Whether you want to buy individual stocks or park your money in a mutual fund, so much of the stock market (especially technology companies) has been beaten down so much that there's only upside left, at least in the long term. When the market overreacts by punishing great companies like Cisco or Yahoo as much as it has hurt companies that should never have existed...
...scattered rhymes too quick for the fingers on CBS's seven-second delay. In the end, the controversial rapper did not win Album of the Year. Instead the academy honored two aging hipsters who named their band after a dildo in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch and sang a jazzy tune about a pedophile who organizes a three-way. Amazingly, there were no formal Steely Dan protests, unless you consider a nation of people asking "Are they still alive?" a form of protest...
...remember the first day I walked into a YMCA weight room, a scrawny kid just entering those joyous years of puberty. There was a tinny radio in one corner with a coat hanger for an antenna cranking out the Bee Gees. Bulked-up men were whistling the tune to Saturday Night Fever as they heaved and bench-pressed rusty iron. One of them glanced at my skinny legs and rumpled socks. "Be careful," he warned me. "At your age, this could stunt your growth...
...tune of "Everybody Dance Now," Albert H. Cho '02 and Jessica A. Fragola '04 stripped down to their underwear--in protest Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by manufacturing companies such as Nike to monitor working conditions in foreign factories...