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...materiel that would stoke heavy industry and the profits of defense contractors. America's military might helped the conventional fighting go quickly in the war's early days. But the generals on Wall Street, expecting as much, have been shooting down defense stocks for months. Yet stocks overall tend to do well after the U.S. engages in hostilities, and this time should be no exception. The Dow ran up 8.4% last week--its best weekly gain in 20 years--and moved into positive territory for the year...
...rush in and have kids report everything that happened right away," he says. "Now we feel it's best to let them tell the story when they're ready, at their own pace." This, he concedes, often puts doctors at odds with law-enforcement officials, who tend to need as much information as they can get as quickly as possible. It may fall to the parents to act as referees...
...event, signs of a deep emotional shift that never wholly resolves itself. "It doesn't mean you can't go on," says Fassler, "but there are scars." The Smart family was still basking in the joy of their reunion last week. There will be time enough to tend to their wounds. --By Jeffrey Kluger
...index of such companies compiled by a Paris brokerage, Oddo & Cie, continuously outperformed the Paris market in the 10 years from 1991 to 2001, with the stock of family firms rising by 446%, compared to 233% for the stock of 250 of France's largest companies. Family businesses tend to be more profitable than others over the longer term, in part because they aren't as fixated on short-term performance and are better able to weather downturns...
...Often these teamings make more sense as marketing ploys. As movies, they tend to be a tired jumble of stereotyped humor and steroidal fight scenes. At least there's something tonic about the films Li has made in the West. His character is so solid, so stolid that cross-cultural jokes fizzle around him; producers have stopped trying to turn him into a smiling Jackie type. And since his mission is not to learn American ways but just to catch the damn villain, a Li movie can get down to basics: punch, kick, pummel, kill...