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...Gaza City last Wednesday. Shimon Peres, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for his founding role in the peace process, sat in the back of the limo with Gilead Sher, Barak's top peace negotiator. The Prime Minister had charged Peres and Sher with pulling Arafat back from the brink. The two men knew the urgency of their task. The previous night, gun battles had raged between the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo and the Palestinian town of Beit Jalla. Israel had fired tank shells and missiles. An Israeli security guard had been shot in East Jerusalem, and even as Peres...
...Would you settle for "possibly"? Last week traders were buzzing that "there's no such thing as a quadruple bottom," meaning that three times - in late May, mid-October and late last week - the tech index has flirted with 3,000 and jerked back from the brink. Add to that the end of October - traditionally the month of earnings news, tax-loss selling by mutual funds and bottoms (not a coincidence) - a Dow afire for three straight sessions and an election about to conclude, and we've got indications that the 3,000 milestone may belong in NASDAQ's rearview...
...Would you settle for "possibly"? Last week traders were buzzing that "there's no such thing as a quadruple bottom," meaning that three times - in late May, mid-October and late last week - the tech index has flirted with 3,000 and jerked back from the brink. Add to that the end of October - traditionally the month of earnings news, tax-loss selling by mutual funds and bottoms (not a coincidence) - a Dow afire for three straight sessions and an election about to conclude, and we've got indications that the 3,000 milestone may belong in NASDAQ's rearview...
Essentially, madness is a state which one must enter alone, a place into which nobody, not even the audience in a theater, can follow you. They can follow you to the very brink of madnessand follow you with great interest if your name is Hamlet or King Lear. But they cannot cross that threshold with you; they can only watch the play develop around you once you have become little more than a set piece, a constant force of irrationality. There is a reason that the conflicts of government play a larger role in the second part of Bennett...
Since Nathan M. Pusey '28 resigned from the Harvard presidency in February 1970, the University has chosen two presidents and is now on the brink of picking a third...