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...restrained from extreme measures, even if it wanted to take them, by other social forces like the white-dominated business sector, the civil service, the police and army, and the nine new provincial governments. The country's democratization, says Hermann Giliomee, a leading Afrikaner academic, is "a bold and brave experiment with a real chance of success." A.N.C. spokesman Carl Niehaus points to purely pragmatic limits on policy: "In order to keep the country afloat, to get economic growth, to avoid further flight of capital and skills from the country, you have to play it that...
While the brave new world of derivatives gives investors and regulators pause to consider the consequences of the proliferation of these little-understood instruments, their use as a vehicle for risk transference is well documented. Investors are risk averse. They require a market rate of return for the risk they are willing to assume. A portfolio that includes a diversified mix of derivative products (futures and options) can produce higher return with lower risk than the same portfolio composed solely of stocks and bonds...
...Toro-Hernandez is stuck with some of the most painful material to deliver. It is a tribute to his acting ability that Benjy seems halfway-believable. Toro-Hernandez sings competently and is endearingly cute in his courtship of K.C. Downing, an assistant on Comedy Cavalcade. It takes a brave actor to slog through some of Benjy's asides to the audience; Toro-Hernandez should get a Purple heart...
...average age of their pitching staff is 24 years old now. The average age of eight Red Sox pitchers, on the other hand, is 34. (Frank Viola turned 34 yesterday). Still worse, the Sox boast a bunch of old players such as (former Brave) Otis Nixon, Scott Fletcher, Andre Dawson and Dave Valle...
...political spectrum, and from various campuses across the country, Take Back the Night has been described as more "poignant" when it follows recent instances of campus women failing to convict their alleged rapists. The audience becomes it own self-empowered judge and jury, supporting the words of whomever is brave enough to take, enforcing what ever conviction...