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...Morgan assured that it would not be liable unless the majority of its CDO backers became insolvent. "But they misled us," says Reetz. "It now appears that we could be made liable even if just one of the backers becomes insolvent, as has happened." J.P. Morgan declined to comment...
David J. Cameron, a Medical School spokesman, declined to comment on the investigation...
Healy declined to comment on the task force’s findings so far, saying that the case is unfinished...
...Increasingly, talking is something people do when other things are going on. Our generation doesn’t converse—we comment. We hand down our authoritative pronouncements through means of communication that don’t require us to defend our positions. No one has debates on Twitter. YouTube is covered in comments that would be better expressed—and better spelled—via a simple thumbs-up or down. Face-to-face conversation, too, has slipped more and more into commentary. People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other...
...ability to leave these “conversations” whenever we want has another, more sinister dimension. Whenever someone disagrees with that intelligent comment we posted on Huffington Post, we can simply browse away. The idea of persuasive speech, conversation with a point to it that advances one viewpoint over another, is increasingly remote. No one argues anymore, or, if they do, it’s about things like who deserves to pick up that peanut on the common-room floor. The upshot of modern communication methods is that you get to choose whom you talk to, and people...