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...easy to condemn the money makers. It is fun to bash the wealthy. It is much harder to acknowledge the reality of money--namely, that we need it. We at Harvard are so quick to criticize the recruitees and pre-law gov jocks for being valueless, soul-sacrificing rat racers who abandon the world of personal reward and emotional fulfillment...
...office and saw Buckley there, he headed in another direction. Why? "Too many leaks," says one of Dole's senior advisers. "Dole's no dummy." Buckley complicated his postcampaign life as well. Through an intermediary, he urged Dole to especially go after the New York Times during his bash-the-liberal-media phase. Sources say Buckley was peeved at Times coverage and sought revenge. But he wants his role kept secret, since he is worried that the paper will pay him back with bad reviews for the novels he writes...
Lost interest? Too lazy to vote? Go ahead, channel surf around those annoying political ads and sleep late next Tuesday. Wall Street's already held the election, tallied the ballots and staged the victor's champagne bash to boot.That's a big part of what's been going on in the stock market since Labor Day. Sure, corporate profits have been humming, and low interest rates have provided punch. But if investors weren't content with the nation's political backdrop it's unlikely stocks would have risen as they have. The Dow Jones industrial average, after sweating through...
...love it when [the Hansons] get off the bus with the team for the first time," said junior Ethan Philpott when asked about his favorite scene. "They look like a bunch of morons, and they bash that vending machine and everything...
...Clinton turnaround has come with costs. The tale of how he brought it off involves excessive influence over foreign policy by a special-interest group, gloves-off bureaucratic infighting and a willingness to bash U.S. allies for electoral gain. It also involves peril. Wooing Dade County's 678,000 Cuban Americans has resulted in the most volatile period of confrontation with Havana since the 1962 missile crisis. The Pentagon fears it is only a matter of time before another event like February's shoot-down of two U.S. civilian planes by Cuban MiGs sparks a military confrontation between...