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To complement this agenda of hate, the current leaders of the Republican Club have also taken to excluding and attacking fellow Republicans who do not hold precisely the same views as they. Standing for the equality of men and women, of Blacks and whites, means being blacklisted by the leaders...
Sooner or later, though, it happens, or has throughout the more than 40 years that I have been writing about American business. Every decade has its characteristic folly, but the basic cause is the same: people persist in believing that what has happened in the recent past will go on...
From that initial miscalculation, the Chechnya expedition became a long journey of blunders and contradictions. The advice of military and intelligence chiefs close to Yeltsin, beginning with Defense Minister Pavel Grachev, was foolishly optimistic. In the early stages, Grachev, an arrogant airborne commander, boasted that a regiment of paratroops could...
Tuesday afternoon, Kansas City Municipal airport. I am soaking my frustration over a delayed flight at one of those kitschy Cheers-imitation restaurants, when approached by a sun-burnt, 40ish man named Frank, one of the 60 or so Nebraska fans passing through the airport after their trip to Miami...
But as interest rates rose this year, the value of the bonds that Citron had bought began to tumble. To make matters worse, the Orange County portfolio held $8.5 billion of derivatives, including an exotic type called inverse floaters, whose value also plunged as interest rates climbed higher. Yet Citron...