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...three successive years, and is the best three-year run ever. The index rose in each of the past seven years--not a first, but rare. And in that seven years it dipped as much as 10% only once, a record. The amazing run has prompted millions to stake their retirement on the bull market and by now has convinced many that a new era of prosperity is upon...
When the Broncos take the field against the Green Bay Packers, there will be more at stake than Denver?s first Super Bowl win in five tries: The fate of a new stadium, whose financing depends on ballot approval of a sales-tax extension, could hang in the balance. In early 1997, polls showed community sentiment running strongly against a publicly financed new home for the Broncos. But now, in the euphoria of a 12-4 season record and three play-off wins, Denverites seem ready and willing to tax themselves for the even greater glory of their gridders...
...reason rarely prevails when personal grief is at stake. Even in liberal Massachusetts, in the wake of several child murders, prompted by the parents of a 10-year-old victim, the State Legislature voted 81-79 to reinstate the death penalty for the first time since...
...such unsung goodness that some almost wished its secrecy had been preserved. Charles F. Feeney, 66, a businessman from New Jersey, had during the past decade given away more than $600 million through his two charitable foundations. At least $3.5 billion more--the entire value of Feeney's ownership stake in the duty-free shop empire DFS Group Ltd., which he turned over to the foundations in 1984--remains in the trusts' coffers. Feeney's beneficence already ranks among the grandest of any living American and may someday make him the most generous philanthropist of all time...
...richest Americans, even though he has reportedly bled his wealth of all but $5 million; Feeney abhors the list, but he let the fiction persist rather than betray his charity. Early in the year, a lawsuit over the sale by his foundation of its stake in DFS threatened to expose the scope of Feeney's giving. So he broke out of his cocoon, telling the New York Times, "Money has an attraction for some people, but nobody can wear two pairs of shoes at one time...