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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Sade's work over the years has become increasingly thoughtful and textured, and the songs on Lovers Rock are adorned with many lovely, epiphanic touches: the mumbled vocal sample that haunts Every Word: the way Sade almost whispers her vocals on It's Only Love That Gets You Through, commanding close attention and conjuring a sense of intimacy. Other maturing pop stars shed their skin like snakes, looking to adapt to prevailing trends. Sade's musical evolution has come slowly, subtly. The power of her music is rooted in gentle grooves and meticulous vocal phrasing. It's a popular saying...
...taken to its logical extreme. The CSIS (led by William Petersen and Marg Helgenberger) are bland, undistinguished types, as if to indicate how secondary the human factor is in this fantasy world of justice by the numbers. When you're guilty on CSI, you're guilty all the way; the computer says so. There is no relativism, no my truth and your truth. It's science. It's nothing personal. And we never have to see the cases go through the messiness of a trial...
...British pound? Or how about the disastrous interest-rate bet that sank the Nobel prizewinners at another hedge fund, Long-Term Capital? If you're like me, tales of derring-do and derring-don't at the hedgies leave you scratching for clues. Is such high-risk investing any way to build a nest...
Like a lot of us, Vinik learned that the hard way. His biggest mistakes occurred when he made too much of his grand view. While at Magellan, he famously shifted into bonds one year, only to have stocks surge ahead. The "classic mistake," he says, is taking your eye off developments at individual companies...
Market timing? It works when it occurs naturally, the product of focusing on valuations. "What looks like us timing the market is really us reacting to companies getting too expensive," Vinik says. He's willing to sit with cash at rare times when everything seems overpriced. "The way you lose money is by chasing what's hot," Vinik says. And by making things tougher than they need...