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...Great Depression started out with a stock market bubble that burst in 1929, as the world was going into a nice recession. Then the government started making mistakes. They passed the Smoot-Hawley tariff, they raised taxes, they became very protectionist, and the next thing you know we had the Great Depression. In Europe they made solvent banks take over insolvent banks with the result that both [kinds of] banks failed. This has all been done before. History is - I don't like saying it, but it's repeating itself. Governments are making the same old mistakes...
...said. Roger S. Gottlieb, a panelist and professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, noted that “denial and avoidance are in a sense reasonable strategies when the reality is overwhelming.” “We need not just a short burst of energy during Earth Week, but an entire change of our way of living spiritually,” said Susan Abraham, moderator of the discussion and assistant professor of Women’s Studies and Ministry Studies at HDS. In the afternoon, audience members attended a series of workshops led by the panelists that...
...their animated roller coaster car into the terrifying Tune Town tunnel, we know we’re in for a treat—and boy, do we get one! Floating past cartoon guitars and keyboards—just like the ones they use!—their yellow seats burst apart and the gang is thrust into an entirely new dimension—where light shoots in columns, winds rush from nowhere, singers wear outfits that are made of metallic purple plastic and sleek leather, and vicious guitar-playing Muppet-hunters flaunt their kills as their garb. In this world...
...level of violence is still shocking. Close to the Kentucky Club, heavily armed police escort an ambulance ferrying a gang member with bullet wounds to a hospital and sit guard in case his rivals try to come in and finish him off. "You watch what's happening, and you burst into tears," says Vargas. "Your spirit lives in the gutter." Severed heads are often left on roadsides and at police stations; the bodies they were once attached to are sometimes hung from bridges and overpasses. A mass grave holding nine corpses was recently discovered outside the city, and in November...
...Cohen burst onto the collegiate lacrosse scene in the Crimson’s season opening upset over then-No. 5 Duke. The attackman filled in for pneumonia-plagued sophomore Dean Gibbons and registered a hat trick against the powerhouse Blue Devils. Cohen was awarded his first Ivy League Rookie of the Week designation for this performance...