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STEVEN JACOBSON If you're in the market for guidance, this is probably not a bad way to go. A lot of people will try...
ERIC JACOBSON It's easy to say, 'Throw it all in stocks,' ... A lot of people say that, but they've never been thr...
ERIC JACOBSON You want to understand why a bond manager makes certain strategic decisions,
ERIC JACOBSON Conventional wisdom is you don't need too many bond funds,
ERIC JACOBSON A good bond fund, like a high yield fund, has less credit risk and less interest rate risks -- and a...
ERIC JACOBSON It's fair to say that most of them have lost money,
ERIC JACOBSON If you believe the bond market has already seen the worst hike in yields, then that's a great time t...
ERIC JACOBSON This is like Christmas in the middle of September. We're 2-0 and we're healthy heading into a bye we...
ERIC JACOBSON They really stepped it up. It wasn't so much that we had a let down. They just started playing bette...
ERIC JACOBSON Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a sing...
HOWARD JACOBSON I've always said if a woman is looking for a good husband, she should go for a Jewish man past 6...
HOWARD JACOBSON Rereading one's own novels after many years is always a fraught business, but when a novel has f...
HOWARD JACOBSON The queue and the fan are, of course, closely related in that fans will queue any length of time in ...
HOWARD JACOBSON It isn't only in the name of free speech that the views of an itchy polemicist should be tolerat...
HOWARD JACOBSON We've had phenomenal residential growth here over the past few decades. We obviously have to provide...
DAN JACOBSON To my ear, the term 'comic novelist' is as redundant and off-putting as the term 'litera...
HOWARD JACOBSON To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventin...
HOWARD JACOBSON You know you are grown sentimental when you start counting the cygnets on the duck pond in the park ...
HOWARD JACOBSON My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really not...
NINA JACOBSON Once in a while, we need the hard Left to pipe up.
HOWARD JACOBSON We are extremely pleased to have Mr. Marra joining our team, especially with his wealth of experienc...
PETER JACOBSON The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every ...
HOWARD JACOBSON Today, students returning to the classroom are the rule -- not the exception.
JAN JACOBSON I recall waking to the realisation that I was the best table tennis player under 17 in north Manches...
HOWARD JACOBSON I feel like this is part of something big he is doing, ... Like taking over the world.
DAVID JACOBSON She was there to save us. These people in uniform are there to guard us.
DAVID JACOBSON In a time of tension between the U.S. and Venezuelan governments, we are proud to be involved in cul...
DAVID JACOBSON My friends don't know what it is, ... Some have tried it, but that's about it.
DAVID JACOBSON Some of us feel, yeah, we need a new school, ... towed the hard line. They just feel like if it's no...
DAVID JACOBSON