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...filming of Halle Berry's homage to Ursula Andress in 1962's Dr. No, emerging from the sea in a bikini. The water was frigid. Screenwriter Robert Wade turned to me as Berry came out for the last time and said, in that loaded way that is pure Bond, 'She suffered...
...just as no one saw 9/11 coming, no one saw the 9/11 election coming. Worse yet, the Democrats don't see it even now. Sure, some Democrats acknowledge that 9/11 played a part. But they trivialize its effect, as when Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe says 9/11 intensified the bond between the President and the people, giving Bush a popularity that rubbed off on Republican candidates and helped sway the election...
...lesson: Don't be a yield hog. "I don't think people should be in the long-term sector now--no way, shape or form," says bond specialist Marilyn Cohen, head of Envision Capital Management in Los Angeles. What you can do is capture most of the yield of long-term bonds by sticking with a portfolio or fund of intermediate-term bonds (five-to 12-year maturity). Ditto for one-year bank CDs (now yielding about 2.1%) to five-year CDs (3.7%). "You don't want to bet against the economy for too many years," says Cohen...
...Corporate bonds are looking sweeter than government-issued Treasuries. The spread (difference in yields) between the two types gaped with the nonstop corporate scandals of the past year, as companies had to pay higher yields to entice wary investors. Although that spread has narrowed a little (10-year corporates now pay about 1.3 percentage points more than 10-year Treasuries), it's still attractive, says Joan Payden of Paydenfunds. Bond bulls like Payden argue that a mid-investment-grade corporate-bond fund yielding 6% to 7% isn't overly risky if beating money-market yields is your goal. There...
With the rise of the animal-rights movement in the 1970s, Harlow became a punching bag. Feminists also got on his case, since one--admittedly oversimplified--implication of his work on the infant-mother bond was that women should take care of their kids and stay out of the work force. By the time he died, Harlow had become an intellectual outcast. But his once radical ideas about love had become and remain utterly mainstream. --By Michael Lemonick