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...love everything about it—the jargon of spreads, strips and yields, the comfort with which the jaded interviewees refer to massive sums of money, the twisted “how does this affect the markets” bent taken on every piece of reporting—but most of all, I just love the constant stimulus. Everything is newsworthy. And unlike the other cable news networks, the financial focus of CNBC provides a guarantee that I’ll never find myself watching petcare tips from the pros or how to prepare a wicked bouillabaisse. On CNBC, they?...
...natives of Boston and the pro-team-deficient wasteland that surrounds it. They are beyond Dartboard’s reach, and deserve to grasp at their bit of irrational hope. There’s more than a little pathos in their insistence on clinging to a moronic dream, backs bent by 85 years of hard labor under the weight of a curse...
...speech less than two weeks after the attacks, President Bush argued that the U.S. was locked in bitter combat with an enemy bent on nothing less than “remaking the world—and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere.” Because Bush assumed that bin Laden was motivated purely by his hatred of “America and other free nations,” his administration crafted a foreign policy based on aggressive, preemptive action. No longer would the United States merely defend itself from imminent threats, as we rightfully did in Afghanistan...
...they sounded any more bummed, they’d only be good for salving broken hearts. Mojave 3 sound like Elliott Smith might if he had been dumped by his girlfriend somewhere below the Bible belt—swoony folk with a country bent. Yet despite the relentless heartache of their lyrics, Spoon and Rafter is an undercover upbeat album, suffused with an insistent gleam of sunshine...
...returned, being gone is starting to haunt me. Although University President Lawrence H. Summers purports to be a great supporter of refining the study abroad program to make it more viable for students, perhaps he needs to inform the rest of his staff. Because everyone here seems to be bent on punishing me for leaving for a semester! Petitioning to leave was quite a hassle, but returning has proved even more difficult