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That's not to say there wasn't actual good news driving other stocks higher. Nine out of 10 issues on the New York Stock Exchange advanced: some, surely, the start (or continuation) of a long-term upward trend. But should a fabulous day in the market be taken to indicate that a broader market rebound is under way? Probably not. We can hope for that, but in the interest of managing our own expectations, let's not count...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, were able to convey intense emotion through only their voices and limited head and hand movements. Their attribution as singers was something of a misnomer, however, meant rather to highlight the role of the voice in the performance than to indicate actual singing.In the last scene of “Corbu Pops,” a sole baby depended almost entirely on her voice to deliver a convincing, poetic monologue regarding forms, reflections, awarenessm the present, past, and future. But her poetic speech was punctuated by passionate, intermittent ejaculations of “Nigger...
...passed through the center say it was never a training camp in the traditional sense. While would-be militants learned to swim and fight there, advanced weapons training was left for the camps in the Pakistani-controlled section of Kashmir. Only a handful of students were sent out on actual combat missions. Instead, most focused on religious doctrine. Parents in the local village who send their children to the Markaz for school say the education is good, though ideological. Ghulam Qadir, 44, has two children there, even though he follows the more liberal Barelvi tradition. School rules insist that even...
Despite the government's successes, IndyMac also shows that nationalization can be costly. Last week, the Treasury Department estimated that the IndyMac takeover will end up costing the FDIC nearly $11 billion. Nearly half of those losses came from the actual day-to-day operation of IndyMac, which lost $4.4 billion in the second half of last year...
...point is that most Americans think of pork as waste. That's why Republicans called the stimulus bill "Porkulus," even though it had no actual earmarks. The fact that money is earmarked does not prove it is wasted, and the fact that money is not earmarked does not prove it is not wasted. This is common sense, when you think about it. Earmarks got their name from the bygone practice of branding the ears of livestock to identify their owners, but no one would have thought a pig without an earmark was kosher. The vast majority of wasteful federal spending...