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...sure that harmony can be willed. Now a high school student in Benton, Ill., she too was four when her parents called it quits. She says she has no memories of the trauma, just an abiding skepticism about marriage and a resolve to settle for nothing less than the ideal man. "I don't want my kids to wind up in a single-parent situation," she says. "And I don't want to have kids with a man I don't want to be married to forever. I don't believe in the fairy tale. I hope it exists...
...paid more than $200 a ticket more than a bit peeved. "We have tried to get hold of him and his agent to give us an explanation, but so far we haven't had an answer. He has behaved like a spoiled child." Confirming that observation was no less an authority than Tina Turner, who last week recalled for Mike Wallace how John threw a temper tantrum after she tried to correct his arrangement of Proud Mary at VH1's Divas '99 show. "He's just very sensitive," said Turner. "Very, very sensitive." Or just very in touch with...
Nader has often been called bossy as well. And he actually was my boss for several years in the 1970s. It's a different kind of bossiness--more an insistence that you see reason and therefore give up all frivolous pleasures in life and less a brutal demand that you bend to his will. But I have seen Nader convince a roomful of young adults, albeit briefly in most cases, that they want to dedicate their lives to irritating others for the general good. Whereas Buchanan's general approach is to aggravate the irritations you are feeling about others...
...numbers hint that such a scenario is taking shape again. Treasury bonds this year have returned 13.9% and cash (T bills) 3.9%, both outstripping the 2.2% return from stocks, according to Ibbotson Associates. The disparity is less dramatic after taxes. Bonds are taxed as ordinary income; stocks are taxed as capital gains, normally a lower rate. Still, these returns are unusual and suggest there is something in the air. Investors have responded by taking their most defensive posture in years. It all seems a little overdone. Few economists forecast a recession anytime soon. Yet with the often unsettling month...
That's how I ended up at the top of the Empire State Building. I hoped that by getting above it all, I might be able to hear my friend Dmitri, transmitting from less than a mile away, on the 23rd floor of the Time & Life Building. Unfortunately, only one of the six radios I tested from on high worked clearly: Audiovox's GMRS-1525 ($240 a pair). Its superior reception, easy controls and rechargeable batteries made it my favorite...