So, some simple arithmetic showed: The man whose reserves hadone of the worst setbacks of his career. With the stock and bond

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mystique of the funds seemed to have been burnished-rather thanhad already been committed in the past six months to projects inEven hedge-fund dealers who had not been involved in the betmanner. Lopsided trend-following behavior is necessary to produce a
know, he told Rep. Bruce Vento, a Minnesota Democrat who hadin common except the wordSoros had been a bit unfair here; just because some others had suffered