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The day traders, who have overnight become a reviled cohort, have an entirely different credo. They trade stocks, particularly the newer, unseasoned Dot.coms off of "the action." They buy strength and sell weakness. A day trader can't have any conviction or belief in any company if he has to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing the Line | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

Investing by yourself has its disadvantages. It is a solitary experience involving a subject--the market--that can be bizarre and irrational at times. Yet judging from the swollen ranks of practitioners, many people genuinely like it. They treat the stock market like a giant store, picking out their favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drawing the Line | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

In the very first feature spread of the very first issue of her new magazine, Talk, editor Tina Brown's formula of mixing high culture and low comes into view like a pop in the nose. It's a haute-fashion shoot at a real Las Vegas boxing match, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Talk | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

It must have been tricky for John Kennedy Jr. to use the public life to his advantage. In Lycidas, Milton called fame "that last infirmity of Noble mind," but for Kennedy fame was not a weakness; he never had a choice about it. His cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Homeward Angel, Once Again | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

Equally brilliant is the more personal "My Weakness." A quintessential closing song, the soaring instrumental sounds like it should be playing over a camera pan of a glorious landscape scene at the end of a movie, or even to the end of a life.

Author: By Annie K. Zaleski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Whale Migrates | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

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