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...looking to make sure somebody has a reason to buy, loosens its controls on companies buying back their own stock. But as pipe dreams of a patriot?s rally quickly went up in smoke, it became clear before long that this wasn?t going to be a coward?s panic either. The losses stabilized by late morning and actually bounced a bit off their lows before slipping again in later afternoon and then bouncing again. The final tally: The Dow down 677 points, the NASDAQ down 115 - and it did seem as if the involuntary four-day layoff didn...
...large black type, read DEFCON DELTA. That is the highest possible state of military alert. Bush made his second remarks at 12:36 from a windowless conference room, in front of two American flags dragged together by Air Force privates. "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward," he began, then spoke for two minutes before leaving the room...
...large black type, read DEFCON DELTA. That is the highest possible state of military alert. Bush made his second remarks at 12:36 from a windowless conference room, in front of two American flags dragged together by Air Force privates. "Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward," he began, then spoke for two minutes before leaving the room...
...aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise in the Pacific, he watched another carrier, the U.S.S. Franklin, turned into an oven by a Japanese bombing attack, smelling the stench of more than 700 men slow-roasted alive between its steel decks. "After that," he wrote, "I became a f___ing coward & was ready to come home immediately, to hell with the war & all that crap about what we are fighting for, etc? Well anyway the Korean War came along & I wanted to see if I was still a coward--I was!" By 1952, when he was discharged from the Marines, no one could...
...Susan Sontag who observed, in her famously acute essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" that "the sensibility of high culture has no monopoly upon refinement... The man who insists on high and serious pleasures is depriving himself of pleasure." (Or, as Amanda says in Noel Coward's Private Lives, "Extraordinary, how potent cheap music is.") All the same, American culture moves so readily to legitimize the latest enthusiasms of mass taste--snowboarding! game shows! Irish step dancing!--that it always seems in danger of overwhelming art that demands quieter attention. The devilishly effective machinery of American pop culture turns our attention constantly...