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...more than fourfold. Whether the next decade will prove as profitable is an interesting question but one that, frankly, can't be answered. Long-term investors can take comfort in knowing that the overwhelming odds are for stocks to be higher a decade from now. But that doesn't help much in times like these, when all you really want to know is whether the bloodletting is nearly over or just getting started...
...Spears Benzak Salomon & Farrell, worries that fund managers have a lot more tax selling to do, looking to realize losses to offset gains they took early this year. "You don't give the client a negative return and a tax bill in the same year if you can help it," he says. The stocks most likely to come under further pressure are the big liquid names, the Ciscos and Microsofts. Tax selling by individuals may barely have started. They tend to hold losers into November hoping for a rebound, and then sell if one doesn't materialize. "I haven...
...story begins in 1996, when Spencer Elementary School teacher-librarian Terri Nalls had a problem. Her students, 92% of them low income, couldn't read a stop sign let alone a book. She wondered if Mike Brumby, who ran the Tift County Foundation for Educational Excellence, could help her buy a reading program called Accelerated Reader...
...different kinds of mentors," says Spacey. "Like angels, they're brought into our lives to teach us something we didn't know or to help us see the world in some new way. Having those experiences from 14 to 18 changed my life. Now I'm paying it forward." Besides his continuing work with Camp Broadway, aimed at getting students to the theater, he is acting as host at a benefit for retirees at the Motion Picture and TV Home in Calabasas, Calif., this month...
...slate water walls 4 ft. high. The waterworks aren't always a hit with the younger crowd. This summer a 26-year-old bride in Belmar, N.J., returned all four of the fountains she received at her wedding. She wonders, "Do people really think newlyweds need that much help relaxing...