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...ever got through to the larger public. As he declared in his 1963 essay "The World and the Jug," he wrote not from a belief that blacks can only suffer and rage, but from "an American Negro tradition which teaches one to deflect racial provocation and to master and contain pain. It is a tradition which abhors as obscene any trading on one's own anguish for gain and sympathy; which springs not from a desire to deny the harshness of existence but from a will to deal with it as men at their best have always done...
...with defects in their DNA will continue to divide, eventually forming small growths. The more cell-division cycles an organism undergoes, the more likely it is to accumulate colonies of abnormal cells, each the offspring of a single progenitor. By the time humans reach middle adulthood, then, their bodies contain millions of cells that have taken at least one step toward cancer...
...during development. In adults, the cell- death program serves as a stern disciplinarian. Cells that become irreparably damaged are expected to fall on their swords for the greater good of the organism. "For an animal to live," says Dr. Samuel Broder, director of the National Cancer Institute, "it must contain within its cells the knowledge that they have to die. But the cancer cell divides at all cost. It's forgotten...
...stories are not, however, mere mimetic renditions of an unordered world, presented to readers as simple records of life. Although they generally are composed of plot and dialogue only, without narrative interpretation or explanation of the events they contain, Mr. McGahern says that they are not bereft of an attempt to answer questions, only that they are bereft of the actual answers. "I would think that all good writing makes suggestions," he says, advancing his definition of quality in literature, "and all bad writing gives answers. In that sense, the images comment...
...what has Wall Street finally wrought at the end of the day? Like nuclear power, derivatives perform a useful function. But they also contain a great deal of risk that must be carefully controlled. "Are derivatives here to stay?" asks Friedman of Goldman Sachs. "Certainly they are. Like many other instruments, they can be used to excess. But they can also be used for extremely beneficial purposes." It will be up to watchdogs in government and on Wall Street to ensure that the beneficial side of derivatives prevails, and that they do not follow pyramid schemes and savings and loan...