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...much as 1% annually. The firm is in discussions with Verizon, among other companies. Ernst & Young is offering a service, called eAdvisorPlus, that's Web-based but includes access to planners. And the giant fund company Fidelity has started a pilot program with the Victoria Advocate, a Texas newspaper. Fidelity charges as much as 0.6% of assets and funnels participants into one of four portfolios based on responses to a questionnaire; a Fidelity adviser customizes from there...
DIED. STAN BRAKHAGE, 70, experimental filmmaker; of cancer; in Victoria, Canada. By linking disparate images without narrative and by using the film surface to scratch, color, write on and paste collages onto, Brakhage aimed to provide a free-associative poetry on film. His 1964 film Dog Star Man was listed by the Library of Congress among the most important films ever made...
...prize. Resorts are springing up alongside the fish-sauce stalls that line the town's only paved street. While the place may yet become a Phuket or a Boracay, Phan Thiet is currently at the lux-backwater stage, with comfortable hotels that are still relatively affordable. The Victoria Phan Thiet resort offers air-conditioned bungalows, each with a sea view and most with a balcony, for $113-$154 a night; call (84-62) 813 000 or go to victoriahotels-asia.com for reservations. The similarly styled Coco Beach resort, located in the center of town, also rents out bungalows...
...women's undergarments, the seemingly ubiquitous thong may be overextended. Full-bottom panties, says Victoria's Secret spokeswoman Monica Mitro, "are on the uptick." J. Lo sported a pair in the video Jenny from the Block, and Halle Berry donned a sporty wide-side, low-hip brief in Die Another Day. "The shape is fresh and functional," says Sarah Easley, co-owner of the hip Manhattan clothing store Kirna Zabete, which, along with specialty lingerie shops like Agent Provocateur, is selling a lot of panties. The trend takes its cue from sports, especially surfing--hence the low-sitting bikini...
...Producer Victoria A. Shannon ’03 elaborated on the improvements that the audience can expect to see in this year’s show. “Last year’s show was disjointed, and there wasn’t a natural flow from scene to scene,” she said...