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...better get this stuff out of [Charlestown], or you can bet I’m going to be back,” Flaherty, a former prosecutor, said to cheers...
...many of us are not so lucky. Millions of Americans feel an illogical but powerful shame at not being able to do something that comes as easy as breathing to everybody else. We garner curious stares when we exhibit secondary symptoms, like twisted faces and balled fists. I would bet I’m not the only person in the College who has tasted blood in his mouth after clenching his teeth so hard during a block that made his entire head hurt. About once a month, a waitress or waiter will take my stutter as evidence of mental retardation...
...Parker, Matthew Broderick, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and ubiquitous billionaire Steve Schwartzman. Was that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly tapping his foot to Frank Sinatra's "The Best Is Yet to Come" as Ralph strolled the runway, taking in the standing ovation and embracing friends and family? You bet. And the best was yet to come: as Lauren grabbed his wife, Ricky, and headed off-stage, the painted backdrop - a reproduction of a Jean-Gabriel Domergue painting, "Barbara Au Derby" - lifted to reveal the evening's real masterpiece, a twilight garden scene complete with chandeliers, fountain, waiters in white...
...ever a man has met his moment, Giuliani has. You can bet the farm that he will be elected by an overwhelming majority and prove to be one of the truly great Presidents --and world leaders--we have ever known. Just as he was in the face of his opponents when he was New York City's mayor, as President he will confront the U.S.'s enemies--domestic and foreign--and ride roughshod over them, doing whatever it takes to secure America. Thank God for giving us this man at this historical moment. This is not a time for sissies...
...made a comeback. The landmark academic work in this vein was a 1997 paper by Harvard economist Andrei Shleifer and University of Chicago finance professor Robert Vishny (who has since left Chicago to become a full-time money manager). Their argument focused on arbitrageurs who use borrowed money to bet that small market mispricings will disappear but who can't get banks to go along with their sometimes contrarian thinking and lend them money exactly when the mispricings--and thus the opportunities--are the biggest...