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...three of them, Butler was dealt the sharpest blow; she is out for the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament. But losing Totman, last year's leading scorer, and Gunther, the 1999 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, for any prolonged length of time will be just as devastating...
...tightest, sharpest productions at Harvard in years, the cast of Hapgood make you believe the way only the best theater can and even the best spy movie ca't. While spy movies lean on gadgets and effects, Hapgood reminds one that spying is really about acting--not to dismiss the outstanding technical design of this production...
...just that, most notably snubbing the President during a hastily convened Geneva meeting in March. Clinton arrived at the meeting full of hope. He left--as so many negotiators have over the years--reminded that Assad's 30 years in power had made him one of the world's sharpest and most patient negotiators. Besides, American diplomats offered by way of excuse, the Syrian President was busy preparing his son Bashar to succeed him. Nobody suspected that would happen so abruptly...
...Bill Gates was the prime beneficiary of the legal paralysis that hobbled IBM in the '80s - he knows all too well that in the tech business, winning or losing the case is almost beside the point. Microsoft may yet dodge the hatchet, eventually, but its days of wielding the sharpest claws in the tech jungle are gone, never to return...
...Bonds. Bond prices fall as long-term rates rise, and the moves are sharpest as you move out on the yield spectrum. Stay away from 30-year bonds until it's clear that long-term rates have peaked. A better bet--one that will lend your portfolio stability, win big if long-term rates fall soon and yet won't hurt much if rates tick higher--is bonds with maturities of three to seven years. Consider an intermediate-term bond fund. "They give you 95% of the yield of the long bond [30-year] with only two-thirds...