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...live in George Orwell’s 1984, where “Newspeak” was the only language societal regulators allowed to be spoken. This is 2004, and we live in a world where immigration is constantly in flux, where we are educated enough to comprehend that differences cultivate prosperous societies and cultures. America, this great country, is the world’s superpower; throughout its history, it has been composed by a wider and wider range of cultures and peoples. Huntington and those who agree with him would do well to think about whether that?...
...banished from baseball for life. No one has ever been reinstated, not even the hapless "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, who for years begged Landis to be reinstated and whose cause has drawn support largely because Jackson was illiterate and almost surely had what lawyers would describe as "diminished capacity" to comprehend the consequences of his actions...
...However, he goes on to argue that error in war is unavoidable: “We all make mistakes. What ‘the fog of war’ means is that war is so complex that it’s beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend all the variables...
...again the S&P 500's best-performing segment, rising 59% this year, even though that segment has experienced a 5% decline in the previous 12 months of earnings. This remains an industry dogged by sluggish corporate spending and huge amounts of excess capacity. So it's hard to comprehend why the stock market is valuing a dollar of tech earnings three times as highly as a dollar of earnings from nontech...
...savvy investor, curl up with a 10-Q instead. Such is the advice of veteran financial journalist Michelle Leder in Financial Fine Print: Uncovering a Company's True Value. She doesn't expect you to read all 300 pages of a company's financial statement or try to comprehend complex derivatives. The most crucial section is the footnotes, where many companies bury bad news. An attentive reader can spot the red flags: inflated growth assumptions for pension assets, a subsidiary controlled by a son-in-law, lots of synthetic leases. Then get your money out. Compare the most recent reports...