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Beyond the talent of the swimmers, the level of conditioning for this year surpasses that of years past. Working with a new weights coach, the team is in far better shape than at this point last year,” Humphries said...
...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...
...claim to deference would be extended for generations to come. Since 1969, when the BBC was graciously permitted to film the Windsors "at home" - who can ever forget their picnic on a grouse moor? - they have thought they could control the terms on which they revealed themselves, and hence shape a "modern" relationship between sovereign and people. It's been a disastrous policy, one that hit its nadir (for now) with suspicions that the Queen intervened to stop the trial of Diana's butler, Paul Burrell, because of royal fears that Burrell might tell stories about wrongdoing inside the Palace...
Addressing Brown’s “liberal curriculum,” Armstrong said it is based on the principle that students learn best when they help shape their own education...
...more on a novel, clearly identifies with Murch’s technical obsessiveness, which often keeps him in the cutting room for dozens of hours to produce one or two minutes of film. But more impressive than Murch’s work ethic is his creative power to shape a film in new directions not always intended by the director. In the double-murder scene in The Godfather, for example, Francis Ford Coppola had only one demand: no music. In response, Murch independently recorded the sound of an elevated train to accompany the silent footage. By slowly raising the volume...