Word: believingness
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On Sundays during high school, my learning was disrupted by the Fate Girls. Before the conformity of junior high had worn off for the rest of us, these girls were wearing loose-fitting clothing, no makeup and talking about the Indigo Girls (which we all thought was a tag team...
For Joseph and Nereciana, their relationship was a reprieve, a warm place in the heart of this darkness. And even when Tanzanian troops surrounded the camp, launched tear gas into the compound and ordered the refugees onto the roads back to Rwanda, Joseph and Nereciana, holding hands as two links...
America idealizes itself, and indeed has achieved much of its stunning success in the world, by believing the best of itself (against sometimes powerful evidence to the contrary), by hewing to its most optimistic myth (consider Ronald Reagan) and holding itself almost metaphysically blameless among the nations. This is American...
Yet despite never having a true superstar player to complement him on offense--or any semblance of a defense, for that matter--Marino never complained, always believing that he could lead his team to the promised land behind his amazing arm. He fought to the end throughout his storied career...
I do not, and my reasoning is simple: the company has too much money. It spent $7.6 billion last year in dividends and stock buybacks. At today's share price that's enough cash to self-fund a buyout over six years--a good indication the stock won't sink...