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...mainstream to remain interesting. Although their audience's "Kurt Cobain is alive" T-shirts now read "Save BU football" instead, the bodies themselves are the same--and their enthusiasm for the music of their tortured adolescence probably won't allow grunge to take its last dying breath just...
...will defend to the last breath the right of the people to criticize the leaders, but where do we draw the line and focus on policy, not personality?" she asked...
...minutes there, around 1 p.m., I found myself saying, Don't worry, the circuit breakers will kick in. That's what we all believed about the never tested market collars designed to let the market--and buyers in particular--catch their breath. Of course, we had never had to use the collars, so who knew? Didn't take long to find out. Traders used these anachronisms, put in when the Dow traded at one-fifth its current valuation, to figure out what to sell. The halt was spooky, flushing sellers from the woodwork when the market reopened. We must have...
Next thing you know, by 10:20 the market is flying in the exact opposite direction the pundits told us it would. It rallies 100, pauses for its breath down to plus 30, and then rallies another 100, and it is clear by midday we will have a rout to the upside. Guys who passed on buying Citicorp at 105, and then 110, and then 115, and then 120, and then 125, reach for $128 stock. I personally moved Telebras 10 points in a futile attempt to buy 25,000 shares. At the bottom the screens simply failed to function...
...from the Klaxon prevented Foale from speaking to Lazutkin, so all he could do was finish clearing the Soyuz hatch and then move on to Spektr to help his crewmate. When the Klaxon at last stopped, Foale turned to Lazutkin. "Why are we doing this?" he asked, out of breath...