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...distracted backstop can ruin a pitcher's concentration. But Soto has always let it go. "That's my personality," Soto says. "In talking to my wife, I'll get pissed, and five minutes later, I'm cool. Even if I'm right." Give Soto's homeland some credit for his success. The Puerto Rico native has played five years of winter ball in the Caribbean, experience that makes him wise beyond his years. "Those are big games down there," says Towers. "He is catching big-league pitchers with games on the line. He's used to the pressure...
...like the financial press has swept the story under the rug, certainly. But what we've generally heard are either dire - but very vague - warnings or the general argument that, if credit dries up, that affects loans to businesses and little guys, and people start to lose jobs...
...maybe they're too close to their own beats. Maybe the effect of a credit freeze is so obvious and transparent to them that they can't quite comprehend how anyone could not understand its impact. That's not a service to the audience, but it's the impression I've gotten at times even from business journalists I normally admire. Last night on PBS's NewsHour, for instance, an anchor put the question to the New York Times' Joe Nocera. I've heard him discuss business news in layman's terms masterfully on NPR for years; if anyone could...
...themselves, only more so. McCain was the action hero, who promised to do the brave, hard things that no one else could. Fire the SEC Chairman! Suspend the campaign! Let's Make a Deal! He was a human diorama of the Great Man theory of history. Of course, getting credit for bringing all parties to the table to reach a historic agreement that pretty much everyone hates may make him wonder if action is overrated, especially after his campaign's self-congratulatory statements ended up being premature. Even with stakes higher than they've been for any vote in modern...
...irrational belligerence, a desire to punish the greedheads that will take its broadest toll on the victims, not the perps. And for all the righteous rage, there was a refusal to admit that in many cases Wall Street's sins are also our own: the average American has nine credit cards with a $12,000 balance; we don't save; we overreach; and together we've created a situation where the prudent who lived within their means are expected to pay for the recklessness of both their neighbors and their leaders...