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Think Like a Champion By Donald Trump Vanguard Press; 198 pages
...Instead, Strumeyer believes investors should compare muni yields to those of high-quality corporate bonds. Recently, Vanguard's Term Tax Exempt fund, a huge muni fund with $21 billion in assets, had an implied yield of about 3%, according to Regent Atlantic's Cordaro. A similar corporate bond fund, BlackRock Intermediate Bond II, had yield of 8.5%. Even assuming a 35% tax bracket, the corporate bond fund is yielding nearly double the muni fund...
Comparative literature was for decades a conservative discipline that focused mostly on Western Europe, but it has recently expanded to include the study of world literatures. Conference co-organizer and Visiting Professor David N. Damrosch, who knows twelve languages, ranging from Nahuatl to Egyptian Hieroglyphics, has been at the vanguard of the transformation, and has served as the general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature...
...young are in the vanguard. A graduate in business administration and a former banker, el-Marsafy donned the hijab when she was 26, despite fierce objections from her parents. (Her father was an Egyptian diplomat, her mother a society figure.) But last year, el-Marsafy's mother, now in her 60s, began wearing the veil too. That is a common story. Forty years ago, Islamic dress was rare in Egypt. Today, more than 80% of women are estimated to wear the hijab, and many put it on only after their daughters...
...Paris Conn to Sonar: Ouch French and British authorities admitted on Feb. 16 that two nuclear submarines, Le Triomphant and H.M.S. Vanguard, collided in early February while deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Though neither vessel was damaged enough to leak radiation or sink along with their approximately 32 combined nuclear missiles, the incident raised concerns over the European neighbors' lack of naval coordination...