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This was one of the many gatherings held around the world last week to commemorate the anniversary of the genocide. Since then, we've seen war crimes tribunals emerge, world leaders (almost) apologize for their inaction, refugee surges that have turned the phrase "mass exodus" into a shopworn cliche, and...
Not so good, though, are the high expectations being promoted. If beating Wall Street really were that easy, the ladies would never have fallen. (Can they get up?) That's not to say individuals can't beat the market. You really do have the advantages of time and unique insight...
A child prodigy, Ma never toed the expected line, cutting class regularly, pounding brews at music camp and leaving his cello in the rain, passing up the conservatory for a liberal-arts education at Columbia and then dropping out without telling his parents (he later graduated from Harvard). Now 42...
Whether "they" are right or not, the cliche says nothing of what weapons to use.
Life imitates art" is a cliche, but that may be the best explanation for what happened to Gayl Jones. The writer made her name in the mid-1970s with transfixing tales of sexual violence and madness, stories of women skating the edges of insanity and the men who shoved them...