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...seductive returns. The S&P report, issued Friday, indicates that many of the best-performing funds relied on short-term strategies and paid little attention to the underlying fundamentals of the stocks in their portfolios, which could lead to a performance problem in 2010. "Using only a backward-looking approach to selecting funds [i.e., past performance] has significant flaws because it ignores the fundamentals of the stocks owned by the fund along with relevant risk and cost factors of the fund," the report said. (See five painless ways to cut expenses...
Before the Obama Administration assumes that General Petraeus' track record in Iraq is transferable to Afghanistan, it should reflect more on a critical U.S. mistake in Vietnam. Much of the reason for the U.S. failure there can be traced to the assumption that General Edward Lansdale's successful approach to defeating the Philippine Huk insurgency would also work in Vietnam...
...much more ambitious attempt to shape the war's history arrived in March with the release of Olympus Inferno, which aired on state-owned television. The drama takes a more subtle approach, depicting a clumsy American scientist who accidentally films Georgia's invasion of South Ossetia while studying a butterfly called, yes, Olympus Inferno. Though couched as a love story, the message is the same: the Georgian army went on a rampage against civilians last August, and the U.S. military helped. (Read "Both Sides to Blame for the Georgia-Russia...
...exception for hospitals and other providers is fundamentally counter to the goals of the original bill, and I will work to see that it is removed," says Senator Jay Rockefeller, chairman of the Finance Committee's health care subcommittee and an original proponent of the idea. "A watered-down approach to fixing Medicare simply will not work...
...approach of Amanda toward life is exactly the same of Amélie - spontaneous, immediate and imprudent." - Giulia Bongiorno, lawyer for Knox's ex-boyfriend Sollecito, likening Knox to the ingenue in the 2001 French movie Amélie - the movie Knox and Sollecito say they were watching the night of the murder (Associated Press...