The Twilight star reveals his superstitions to PEOPLE
Congratulations to all who had Animal Kingdom winning the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago. This handicapping column did not have the chestnut colt as its top selection. (He was sixth on the list.) But as he returns to the track in Saturday's Preakness Stakes with a chance to add the second leg of the Triple Crown, we have enthusiastically jumped on the Animal Kingdom bandwagon.
Allstate Corp. retracted a press release on Wednesday that was meant to be a joke, displaying the accident rates of drivers according to their zodiac signs.
The e-mail messages began filling astrologer Shelley Ackerman's inbox as soon as the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported the zodiac chart is off by about a month.
Some witches in Romania are warning they'll cast a bad spell on government officials over new labor laws that could require them to pay taxes on their income.
Thanks to a judge's ruling on Tuesday, it appears that Jamie and Frank McCourt may have to share the Dodgers, at least temporarily. That is ridiculous. Bitter divorcees should not share a team temporarily. They should share it permanently. Jamie gets one half of the Dodgers and Frank gets the other half.
Tens of thousands of Indian couples tied the knot Sunday, one of the luckiest days in the Hindu calendar.
The Kumbh Mela is a mass Hindu pilgrimage that is often referred to as the largest religious gathering on the planet. It is celebrated four times every 12 years, with the observance rotating between four different cities in India.
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More than 60 million pilgrims are expected to visit the holy town of Haridwar, India, between January and April.
Authorities are investigating reports that disabled children in India were buried up to their necks during this week's solar eclipse as a supposed remedy for their handicaps.
While many now recognize the scientific explanation for a solar eclipse, the phenomenon is still marked with tradition and sometimes suspicion in Hindu-majority India.
Arriving at 8:08 a.m., 8/8/08 could mean newborn Parker will be a business whiz
In 2004, just after the release of Ron Suskind's "The Price of Loyalty," a critical account of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's experiences in the Bush administration, Scott McClellan, then the administration spokesman, was asked what he thought of the work.
CNN's Tom Foreman looks back at some of the earlier "tell-all" insider books to emerge from the Bush presidency.
"Having a family has made me feel whole," she says, refuting stories of marriage trouble
It's been 45 years since General Hospital began dispensing heavy doses of drama to TV viewers
ITN's Elodie Harper reports on recently released files that reveal British security services hired an astrologer to try to defeat Adolf Hitler.
CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on the great weight debate over Britney Spears' appearance at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Activists on both sides are in a heated confrontation in the city of Aurora over a new Planned Parenthood clinic
Jenn, what did you think of Wisconsin? Would you admit that us Badgers party way better than you Seminoles? And where is your next stop on the Road Trip excursion? -- Michael, Madison, Wisc.
The annual Geminid meteor shower is expected to produce a reliable shooting star show when it peaks on Wednesday.
The coming year is likely to be fraught with economic pitfalls for business travelers, who will also face stormy skies as east-west trade hits turbulence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has honored five British rescuers who saved the crew of a Russian mini submarine trapped on the Pacific Ocean floor.
The seven-man crew of a trapped Russian mini-submarine are back in port after a three-day ordeal at the bottom of the Pacific with dwindling oxygen.
A Russian submarine that had been trapped nearly 190 meters (625 feet) below the surface of the Pacific Ocean was raised Sunday, and all seven crew members are alive, a spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet has confirmed.
A U.S. Navy crew and two robotic submersibles left for Russia's Pacific coast Friday in a race against time to rescue seven Russian sailors trapped in a mini-sub, U.S. Naval officials said.
If you were disappointed with the meager showing put on by this year's Leonid meteor shower, don't fret. What could be the best meteor display of the year is scheduled to reach its peak on Monday night, December 13.
A spate of roadside bombings this weekend has killed six U.S. soldiers, according to the U.S.-led coalition.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and five wounded in Iraq Saturday when their armored Humvee was hit by a roadside bomb in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, the U.S. military said.
Forget little fold-up pamphlets on the compatibility of sun signs, forget lucky numbers on motel paper placemats, forget that weather-beaten little paperback on sexual astrology your college roommate's girlfriend left in the bathroom.
Fortune: The Wordupdated: Mon Jan 20 2003 00:01:00
Who can foretell what kind of SEC chief Bill Donaldson (above) will make? His old DLJ partner Dick Jenrette, apparently. Jenrette detailed his own reliance on sun signs and color tests in his 1997 ...
FSB: Signs Of Lunacyupdated: Sun Dec 01 2002 00:01:00
It's an important meeting with a new client. The handshake: firm. The exchange of cards: swift. The opening line: "So, what's your sign?" Could yesterday's bad pickup line be tomorrow's sales strat...
Take a stroll along New York's Canal Street, and you'll soon discover that you've arrived in knockoff heaven: Here a "Gucci" bag can go for $20, a "Rolex" watch for even less. Well, now it seems th...
Fortune: Astrologyupdated: Mon Feb 05 2001 00:01:00
After a 12-month gestation, the world's largest millennium baby, AOL Time Warner, entered the world when it began trading on Jan. 12. (Estimated birth weight: 115.5 billion lbs.) What can we expect...
Beautiful desk in the corner. Such an odd angle, such an unusual exposure to natural light. Quirkily appealing. It's feng shui, a design scheme of Chinese origin that's gradually going global. It g...
No one told Mike McCue that the bloom was off Internet startups, especially the sort that act as if they can change the world. Nor does he seem to have gotten the message that it's time to batten d...
The best deals go to those with with best information. That's the reasoning behind our ninth annual car buyer's guide, which provides financial and safety data for 398 of the most popular 2000 cars...
Feeling New Age? Even millennial? Investors sure are--or so hopes one author with some, ahem, unconventional stock-picking ideas.
Every May for the past seven years, Henry Weingarten, a financial astrologer, has held his market forecast conference. Why May? The 17th is the New York Stock Exchange's birthday, making it a Tauru...
We'll begin to answer this question of blood ties between the Oracle of Omaha and the Minstrel of Margaritaville by pointing out their similarities, which are haunting. Both play stringed instrumen...
DEAR ANNIE: Please settle an argument for me. I have a team of six people reporting to me, one of whom is so obnoxious--rude, sarcastic, hostile, and argumentative--that no one can stand working wi...
Two things occurred just past noon on July 9: a full moon and a stock market free fall. Coincidence? Not to Henry Weingarten, founder of the Astrologers Fund Website, www.afund.com, who says a full...
I need a new car. Badly. That's my family in the photo below, sitting atop our road warrior: a 1988 Taurus wagon with 123,362 miles on it and a host of dents and scrapes. The car's been remarkably ...
When consultants show up to root around inside your company, several things can happen. They may perform dazzlingly, saving you millions of dollars and pointing you in the direction of lucrative ne...
In the morning on his way to work, J.P. Morgan is said to have visited an astrologer named Evangeline Adams, a descendant of John Adams. "Is it true that millionaires consult astrologers?" someone ...
--For Vanguard's $17 billion Windsor fund, it's been a humdinger of a run. Manager Charles Freeman--who took over the fund from the ballyhooed John Neff at year-end 1995--has engineered a head-spin...
Aquarius (January 21 to February 19): With Uranus lumbering around and making everybody nuts, you may find yourself feeling like squeezing an associate in an inappropriate fashion. Don't. Watch out...
Last fall the Reader's Digest published a joke about reengineering--a tipoff that the management cult of the early Nineties had passed its peak. (A good joke too: An optimist is someone who says a ...
Sure, the recent mergers between Walt Disney Co. and Capital Cities/ABC and Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting pair fine assets. But the most tantalizing question surrounding the two megadeals inv...
BEATLEMANIA, NOT MUTUAL FUNDS, was the rage when John Neff, now 62, took charge of Vanguard's Windsor Fund in June 1964. Over the next 30 years, an investment in Windsor has multiplied in value an ...
Fortune: THE INSIDERupdated: Mon Apr 18 1994 00:01:00
Why not dress for success the way PaineWebber's chairman does? John Bult's outside venture capital firm, Arbela, is backing British women's wear designer John Galliano. Judging from the micro-minis...
What's the surest way to stay invested in today's increasingly risky market? Here are unvarnished answers from none other than John Neff, 62, the renowned manager of Vanguard's $11 billion Windsor ...
IT'S A BIT like watching a scientist develop a drug to cure a serious illness. But the patient is American business, the hoped-for cure is a new, improved MBA, and the scientist at the moment is Jo...
Quest for Value's George Long may be hot, but he's hardly the most famous manager of a dual-purpose fund. (Such funds have two classes of shares. One takes all the portfolio's capital gains, while ...
Thank you for the kind words about John Neff and Gemini II in your August Wall ; Street section. However, you reported the expectation for the 1991 annual dividend as $1.63 per share. At this junct...
Your family is clamoring for a new car, so it looks like curtains for that little cushion of cash you have in the bank. Then the dealer suggests you lease your wheels. The big advantage of leasing ...
It sounds like pie in the sky, but it isn't: a junk bond's yield without a junk bond's risk. The investment is Gemini II income shares, which pay more than 12%. ''For safety, they're the next best ...
Money Magazine: TOP STOCK updated: Thu Aug 01 1991 00:01:00
Gemini II income shares (NYSE; recent price: $13). Preferred shares of this unusual closed-end fund could produce a yield to maturity of 12%. Page 49
Look -- there in that portfolio! It's a stock! It's a bond! It could behave like either, depending on which half of an unusual species of split mutual fund it belongs to. These are closed-end mutua...
Fed up with economists' fickle forecasts and their high-strung reactions to the latest economic statistics? Should you cast your gaze skyward instead and look for investment guidance from more perm...
The tax man has sneaked behind the Iron Curtain and is emphatically not getting any Red carpet treatment. On January 1, Hungary became the first Soviet bloc country to impose a personal income tax ...
Great ideas whose time didn't come: Metric system (1975-?) The federal government spent 12 years and an estimated $20 million trying to persuade the American populace to convert to the metric syste...
Since their last surge of popularity in the 1960s, closed-end funds have been largely ignored by investors. Recently, though, their shares have begun to attract revived interest. During the past 19...
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