Word: summering
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...always teach The Great Gatsby just after the end of summer, when the Long Island light has lowered to copper streaks, the "inessential houses," as Fitzgerald called them, have been closed and boarded, and Gatsby is dead again. He is dead every autumn, and I take a melancholy consolation speaking of him to my college students after everything he yearned for is irretrievably gone. That, of course, is the heartbreak of the novel--the yearning to be young forever and to redo, remake. And the yearning does not get more manageable simply because one can do nothing about...
...plugged Bette heavily during Survivor and hopes it will draw some of that summer hit's young viewers. That seems iffy, not because its star was born in the middle of the past century but because its premise was. From her start belting '40s show tunes in the '70s, Midler has been a revivalist at heart, and her hooray-for-Hollywood vehicle is Jack Benny redux, a wannabe I Love Lucy with Midler as both Lucy and Ricky but without the innovation of its forebears. That said, it has the ingredients of a much better show. The writing is sometimes...
...some reason, the market's constant stream of worries takes on added significance in the fall. It may be that some investors simply lose interest over the summer and come back after Labor Day ready to scrutinize everything. Fall is also a time when mutual-fund managers sell losers to lock in tax benefits...
During last summer's Camp David peace talks, South Korean diplomats in Seoul grilled counterparts from the Middle East, calling for hourly updates, buttonholing them at embassy receptions. Why did Seoul monitor negotiations so closely? "They were afraid the talks would be successful," says a diplomat, "and KIM DAE JUNG would lose the Nobel." Many observers feel the unstated motivation driving President Kim's push for detente between the Koreas is an obsession with winning the Peace Prize, which will be announced Friday. Kim's resume has "Nobel" stamped all over it. He was jailed by military dictatorships, and assassins...
...while a typical trade on the N.Y.S.E. takes 22 sec. "That's a lifetime in an active market," says CEO Putnam. "Our advantage comes from having no human intervention." Investors have been able to trade NASDAQ stocks via Archipelago since 1997, and the system got a huge boost this summer when it became the first ECN to quote stocks listed on the N.Y.S.E. and AMEX...