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...small vanguard of disabled people left the site saddened, believing to a person that the monument seemed lifeless, lacking the heroic vibrancy of F.D.R. with his radiant smile, head back, steering himself into that destiny he saw beyond all adversity. "The essence of the man is missing," said wheelchair user Mike Deland, chairman of the National Organization on Disability...
Gomes quoted New England's First Fruits, a book written by an anonymous author during the mid-1600s to attract European investors to the colonial effort. "The Indians were to be the first fruits of a great general harvest," he said. "They were to be the vanguard of the reformation of the world...
...Perspective: Onward Spartacus Youth! This paper brings new meaning to out in left field. Way out.... Yes: the pseudo-intellectuals will be the vanguard of the proletariat. Oh, by the way, the war in Vietnam is over. Maybe an all-American activity like a softball game with the Peninsula staffers is all that's needed...
...costs eat you up," says John Bogle, a low-fee fanatic and chairman of mutual-fund company Vanguard Group, which champions "index funds" as the surest road to long-term investment success. Over long periods, Bogle says, it's inevitable that managed funds will trail the benchmarks by roughly 2 percentage points a year, reflecting their costs. But index funds such as Vanguard's Index 500, which mimics the S&P 500 by owning essentially the same stocks, have low fee structures and allow individuals to easily approximate the market's average return year after year. Last year the Index...
...roadster is back. After years of declining sales, and against the Boomer vanguard of minivans and sport utilities, automakers such as Jaguar and Porsche have rediscovered and updated a vintage class of sports cars that have virtually no reason for being except the sheer wind-in-your-face joy of motoring...