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...time in a while, people have got really scared," notes longtime bear Barton Biggs, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. He was expecting more selling this week, fueled by margin calls, margin-related liquidations and fidgety institutions. Mutual-fund investors, generally, have been holding on, Biggs says, though they haven't been aggressive buyers, and some fund companies got hit with redemptions. [What should you do? For advice on riding out volatile markets, see my column on page...
...though, administrators are quietly shifting their sights from metal detectors to "mental detectors." Commonly known as profilers, these programs aim to detect violence-prone kids before they act by comparing them to those who have already snapped. Investigators from Columbine and Jonesboro have tutored administrators across the U.S. on the telltale signs that in their cases went tragically undetected or unheeded. The FBI, which last fall circulated a 20-point "offender profile" culled from common characteristics of school shooters, will release a report on the topic next month. And the Secret Service, at work on its own study, is interviewing...
...wants to alter the terms of a potential divorce settlement? Enter the postnuptial agreement. "Anytime somebody is going to come into substantial unforeseen wealth, that is going to give them the opportunity to examine their relationship," says John Mayoue, an Atlanta lawyer who says the proliferation of Internet millionaires--though they are a little scarcer after this month's market plunge--has had a "huge" influence on his firm's postnup business. These contracts are worked out with personal attorneys and don't usually have to be filed in court, so it's impossible to determine exactly how widespread they...
Like prenuptial agreements, postnups can be a few paragraphs or several pages long, typically spelling out what the dependent spouse claims or waives in the event of a divorce. Their unique terms can supersede state laws, though their legal status is still unresolved in many jurisdictions. Most states have laws that govern the enforcement of prenups, but only a few have dealt with the relatively new postnups. The rules vary. New York and Florida have ruled that postnups are enforceable, but North Carolina and Louisiana require the agreements to be approved by a judge. In Hawaii they are valid only...
...Though Oprah, based in Chicago, is rarely seen in the O offices, she intervened often in the editing process, peppering King with ideas, demanding changes when she found some helpful hint too condescendingly obvious, and insisting that the table of contents come at the very beginning of the magazine instead of after pages and pages of advertising, as in most glossy monthlies. Oprah tried on every fashion item featured in the magazine's "O List," according to King. "She won't recommend something she hasn't tried herself," says King. "There's one list in which you have...