] "Stalking yield is trickier than ever -- you need to
] build enough of the right kind of returns into your
] retirement portfolio so that you cut risk down to size.
] Here are some of your choices."

Jubak's Journal

] "First came word Friday that the jobless rate had risen
] to a nine-year high of 6 percent. The last time it was
] that high America was in a recession. Now Mr. Bush has
] apparently requested the resignation of Mr. O%u2019Neill
] and Mr. Lindsey. What%u2019s up?"
...
]There had been some rumblings that was coming. Sen. Richard
]Shelby, the Republican incoming chairman of the banking
] committee, had urged the White House not to rush into it. But
] this president now has three major appointments that he must
] make — his secretary of the Treasury, his chief economic
] adviser and head of SEC.

O'Neill, Lindsey didnt meet the test

] "A tour bus filled with beer-drinking passengers and a
] handful of strippers is plying the night-time streets of
] Berlin, giving the German capital a hot new tourist
] attraction. "

Topless tour bus adds spice to Berlin

] "The long dwindling luxury tax on automobiles will be
] completely phased out on January 1, 2003. Car sellers
] will then no longer have to pay the tax of three percent
] of the amount of the sales price that exceeds $40,000.
] That means that the price of your new car will be reduced
] by the amount the dealer saves in taxes. So if you can
] wait a few months to purchase that new Hummer, it may
] well be worth your while."

Luxury tax on cars expires in 2003

] "Paul O%u2019Neill, whose outspokenness won him praise as
] a captain of industry but often landed him in hot water
] as President Bush%u2019s treasury secretary, announced
] his resignation Friday."

Cya later aligator...

Treasury Secretary stepping down

] "HP is retiring Alpha"

bye bye old friend.

HP plans to take Alpha to its omega

] "Owen Gleiberman writing for www.ew.com says the new film
] is "a visual pageant of sorcery and action, that all but
] surpasses The Fellowship of the Ring.''"

Ananova - Critics give thumbs up to The Two Towers

] "More than 8,000 sailors and Marines left the East Coast
] on Thursday as part of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S.
] Truman battle group, its first deployment since last
] year%u2019s terrorist attacks. The group was making a
] scheduled move to the Mediterranean Sea and Persian
] Gulf."

8,000 sailors ship out to Gulf

] "The knotty problem of choosing the optimum way of lacing
] up shoes has been solved by a new mathematical proof. "

How do you tie your shoes?

Mathematics unravels optimum way of shoe lacing

] "The newly reformed Doors features two members of the
] original group, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and lead
] guitarist Robby Krieger. They are joined by Copeland, who
] replaces founding member John Densmore on drums, and
] singer Ian Astbury of The Cult, filling the shoes of
] Morrison on lead vocals. Densmore was forced out of the
] reunion by a severe tinnitus."

New Doors drummer breaks on through