Word: turk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another Young Turk, Christine Baxter, 29, thinks her age helps her relate to young tech entrepreneurs she tracks as manager of the $1.2 billion PBHG Emerging Growth Fund. "This is an incredibly taxing business [that requires so much] energy," says Baxter, a philosophy major who has averaged a 20% return since 1995. Says Kurt Brower, author of Mutual Fund Mastery: "It's like surgeons--eventually they have to operate." Investors can only hope that if things go bad, these green managers can stop the bleeding...
...think of Renaissance portraiture as straightforward: here's Duke X, the man to the life, speaking through his realistic effigy; that's the armor he wore when he did the Turk in--and so forth. Lotto's portraits tend to be more complicated than that. Take, for instance, his magnificently assured portrait of Andrea Odoni, 1527. Odoni, a rich Venetian, collected Greco-Roman antiquities, and the clue to this painting is the statuette he shows in his hand--an image of Artemis, goddess of the Ephesians, denounced by St. Paul. But his other hand clasps a crucifix to his breast...
...therein lies the problem. As Solatzo the Turk says, "Blood is a big expense," and in reality being bad is all fun and games until someone loses an eye--or, in Bugsy's case, a head. After a tiff over Vegas (Bugsy said yes, Lucky said no, and the mafia world was divided forever after over the fate of America's top sleazepost), Luciano had Seigel shot, ending an era of mafia power that only the Corliones could revive. In Puzio's restive family we see all that Lansky and his pals could never capture: the tranquility...
...Even though a significant number of our members gained protected status, the effect has been devastating," Turk says...
...Turk says the higher rates are "impossible for many low- and middle-class families to afford" and that some families have had to find second jobs to pay their rent...