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Ocon said that she and Maggiore will be flying out together with Bailey this summer to spend a week continuing her apartment hunt as well as looking for housing and employment...
...investigators are searching for dirt on President Bill Clinton's past sex life in order to dig up revealing pillow talk about the Whitewater investment scheme. In a series of recent interviews with Arkansas state troopers and 12 to 15 women, including Paula Jones, investigators swerved from their usual hunt for business-related information to unearth details on Clinton's sex acts and any illicit rendezvous with other women, The Washington Post reported. Attorneys working with independent counsel Kenneth Starr argue that the interviews were necessary to establish whether President Clinton had confided details of his business investment to anyone...
...Washington has been under increasing pressure to resolve it. At the urging of New Mexico Representative Steven Schiff, who complained about a government "cover-up" of Roswell and the "runaround" he was getting from the Pentagon, the General Accounting Office announced in January 1994 that it would launch a hunt for any documents related to the "incident." That announcement was noted in the Washington Post under the headline "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe: Bodies of space voyagers said to have disappeared...
...worked with the immigrant community. Choosing enforcement over crime prevention, they nearly doubled the local police force from 36 to 60 officers. "The police have a new attitude," says Deputy Mayor Hubert Fayard. "Before, they weren't respected. Now they will seek contact. If they see delinquents, they will hunt them down. Our message to them is, 'Go somewhere else...
Still, the episode is a reminder that the market has herd instincts. The popular stocks are the ones that go up. But you never know what's popular until after a big move, and popularity can be fleeting. The best way to win is to hunt for good companies that are out of favor. Then wait. If they really are good, the herd will find them, usually after some event calls attention to what the crowd has been missing--like Gates writing a check to Comcast. That's the way Warren Buffett invests. Buffett--one of Gates' buddies...