Word: boyness
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...terrorism and loneliness set in a future when each year is known by the name of its corporate sponsor (e.g., the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar). Infinite Jest was the quintessence of 1990s literary maximalism, and it became instant required reading. Enough with those '80s party-boy writers! Here was a novelist with the industrial-strength intellectual chops to theorize even our resolutely anti-intellectual age. Wallace became a reluctant literary pinup, with his stubbly outsize chin and his shoulder-length hair. He was America's No. 1 literary seed, at the top of a hierarchy that...
...Kennedy, scion of America's most famous political family and a wealthy investor in his day, told of selling his holdings before the 1929 market crash because a shoeshine boy had offered him stock tips. The story may well be apocryphal, but in the decades since, shoeshine boys have become a kind of insider's measure of how a market's doing. In the main shopping center in London's Canary Wharf financial district David Peralta is one such oracle, though not because he hands out investment tips...
Before he became the President, CEO and Chairman of Bank of America Corp. - and the man whose $50 billion purchase of brokerage firm Merrill Lynch & Co. was some of the only good news on one of Wall Street's worst-ever days - Kenneth Lewis was a Mississippi boy who lived in a town so small he once joked that you had to go one town over "just to be born." He went to Georgia State University and then to work at North Carolina National Bank (NCNB) in Charlotte as a credit analyst - his first banking job. That was back...
Sure, here are a few: In Sydney, Australia, a riot was sparked one summer day in 2004 by the rumor that an aboriginal boy on a bicycle had been chased by police and died after he was tragically impaled on a spiked fence; the rumor incited a group of 200 youths to throw home-made explosives at police, 40 of whom were injured in the melee. The late Saddam Hussein regularly spread rumors to discourage resistance to his dictatorship. In light of this, rumors that he possessed weapons of mass destruction may ironically have first originated from Hussein himself...
...certainly seems like he was at one point, based on the incidents the Palin family compiled. After all, who Tasers a 10-year-old boy, even if it was the boy's idea in the first place, and even if the Taser was on a low setting? But the state troopers investigated all the allegations and let Wooten off with just a 10-day suspension (the police union eventually got it down to five). As of this July, the custody case was still unsettled. And the fact that Wooten served on the Alaskan equivalent of a SWAT team shows that...