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...made it to 80 years old in a business where many don't make it nearly as far. A lot of musicians fall into drugs and make all kinds of bad choices. I could be around situations that I didn't have to participate in, you know? That was true all my life. It's about not overdoing everything. You just have to stay true to yourself, and you have to start out with good genes, I guess...
...when asked how success could be measured, he could only fall back on an old Washington cliché: "We'll know it when...
...that this diminishes Yang's victory. When asked why he seems able to stand up to the game's greatest player when so many others fall flat, Yang joked Sunday that "I know Tiger isn't going to beat me up on the green. I just play cool and easy." But Yang also believes in his ability, saying that his success is no fluke. Going head to head against the mighty Woods is "something I sort of visualized quite a few times, playing with him in the final round of a major championship," Yang said after his earth-shattering victory...
Many players believe there's opportunity now for similar triple-digit returns. "I think several hundred percent [return] is possible" if leverage is used, says Anton Schutz, portfolio manager of the Burnham Financial funds, which have been investing in the sector since last fall. However, he believes the biggest buying opportunities are still six to 12 months away. (See the top 10 scared stock traders...
...Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff by Erin Arvedlund (Portfolio) carefully details how Madoff's marks, some of them supposedly sharp hedge-fund managers, became feeder funds for Madoff's enterprise by willfully or negligently failing in their due diligence to check out the bogus Madoff claims. "The same people did more research on buying a car than they did on the man who handled their money," she writes...