Word: cohenable
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...award. After four decades and thousands of lawsuits, Robert A. Levy of the CATO institute points out, no tobacco company has ever paid any court-awarded damages. Given that they win eight or nine of every ten individual litigations on average, according to Goldman Sachs tobacco analyst Marc Cohen, they have little cause for concern. If the Bullock decision signaled a real threat to Phillip Morris, we would expect investors, the most paranoid sentries of corporate danger, to sell off stock as quickly as possible. But although its share prices slipped about 10 percent on Friday, it rebounded Monday...
...threatening act. It breaks the cocoon that surrounds the foursome. The intact couple sometimes doesn't want to confront the fact--or let each other see--that there's life after divorce. The now separated friend becomes a third wheel on outings. And, suggests matrimonial lawyer Robert S. Cohen, many wives feel threatened by newly single women in their midst. Finally, people don't know what to do or say or how to help without being too intrusive...
...speech drew decidedly mixed reviews, with liberal columnist Richard Cohen praising it in the Washington Post for its boldness, and the New Republic, which backed Gore for President as early as 1988, suggesting it was born of bitterness. Every pundit in the country also held up the speech to the light of 2004 and tried to divine whether Gore's words were just the opening salvo of a campaign to make Bush foreign policy Topic A. They got no help from Gore: when he came onstage the following day at a rally for Democratic candidates in Santa...
...character has a theory about at least one of them. Alex, for instance, is compiling a book that divides the world into people and things with "Jewish" traits (including poplar trees, Jimmy Stewart and John Lennon) and "goyish" traits (including oak trees, Elvis fans and the Jewish troubadour Leonard Cohen). It's inspired by a Lenny Bruce riff, the novel's epigraph, but it becomes a predictable dog-people-vs.-cat-people dichotomy. In her narrative Smith acknowledges and dismisses the pop-psychological interpretations that Alex's book invites--"The Mixed-race people see things double theory and the fatherless...
Arianne R. Cohen ’03 is a women’s studies concentrator in Leverett House. Her column appears on alternate Mondays...