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...Still, all the families were “native Dutch,” the politically correct term for “white” in this country...
...mistake. Isn't that letting them off the hook? No. They're good people because they really are suffering. And they don't know what to do. They want love in their life, [and] they feel that there's something radically wrong and they don't know how to correct...
...Stock-market valuation is an inexact science, and it offers no guarantee that the market will not correct sharply after its big run-up. Indeed, even Cooperman expects the months ahead to be characterized by a trading-range market, with a lot of backing and filling. But in fits and starts, he believes, it will edge higher over the next 12 months. Perhaps it's a mark of these unusual times that such a modestly bullish forecast felt bold; it's another such mark that professional investors are just as skittish about the market as the little...
...Rumsfeld attributed many of the distortions to self-serving accounts provided by State Department and NSC officials. He said that although other top administration officials knew such leaking was going on, they did nothing about it. Even out of office, Rumsfeld has sought to nudge his erstwhile colleagues to correct the record. He wrote Powell, for instance, objecting to statements by Lawrence Wilkerson, a retired U.S. Army colonel who served as Powell's chief of staff, in which Wilkerson alleged that senior defense officials had quietly encouraged Taiwanese politicians to move toward a declaration of independence from mainland China...
...this not been Russia, Glazunov might have defended his work. Instead, he complemented Putin on his eye for detail and said he would correct the mistake. Under the current climate, he was probably right to - when it comes to Russian art, going up against the authorities has its consequences...