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...VANGUARD GROUP, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; 800-433-5514. The long-standing No. 2 of the mutual-fund business and the leading practitioner of no-load investing, Vanguard is led by iconoclastic John Bogle. It is the Wal-Mart of mutual funds, dedicated to winning customers by driving costs lower and lower. Because of that strategy, Vanguard has grown like, well, Wal-Mart. The annual cost of keeping your money at Vanguard is 31' per $100 invested, vs. an average $1.11 for the industry overall. When it comes to money-market and bond funds, where every penny counts, Vanguard...
...WAL-MART Albumed out: chain bans new Sheryl Crow release for lyrics implying it sells guns to kids...
...ANGELES: Sheryl Crow won't be able to "have some fun" at a Wal-Mart store anytime soon. The nation's largest retailer decided not to sell Crow's new album because one song implies Wal-Mart sells guns to children. "Selling a record implying behavior that is against all we stand for is something we just could not profit from," said Wal-Mart spokesman Dale Ingram. The lyrics in question, from a song called "Love is a Good Thing," read: "Watch out sister, watch out brother; Watch our children as they kill each other with a gun they bought...
Robert De Niro is our designated stalker, psycho of choice to the age of lumpen paranoia. Since he offers his fourth version of this character in The Fan, it's obvious that he's not yet tired of the furnished rooms, Wal-Mart wardrobes and frayed synapses that marked his darkly defining work in Taxi Driver, The King of Comedy and Cape Fear. A more objective observer, however, can't help thinking this game should be called on account of deja...
...ball through a hoop? The answer is yes, at least the way economists keep score. It's a simple case of supply and demand. The inventory of 7-ft. 1-in., 300-lb. human rockslides like Shaq is not deep; you will not find one at Wal-Mart. That's why the Houston Rockets' pivotman, Hakeem Olajuwon, got a $55 million, five-year contract extension and another African-born center, Dikembe Mutombo, signed with the Atlanta Hawks for a five-year, $50 million deal. The Miami Heat is on the verge of re-signing playoff flop Alonzo Mourning...