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...notion of pedagogical censorship, though, is oxymoronic. State censorship of the press is not a pedagogical enterprise—it teaches nothing but disdain for the free press protections enshrined in the first amendment...
...conduct business internationally. More importantly for executives looking to save face (and their jobs), 8% is also the magic number at which the FSA can forcibly recapitalize a bank or place some operational control in government hands. Desperate to raise capital, Japanese banks are finally overcoming their deeply ingrained disdain for foreign investors. American investment bank Merrill Lynch was recently allowed to take an $849 million stake in a company created by troubled UFJ Holdings, Japan's fourth largest bank. And two weeks ago, Sumitomo Mitsui, Japan's second largest bank, sold $1.27 billion worth of convertible preferred securities...
Last week, George W. Bush placed his re-election in the hands of people he used to despise. When Bush was running for president, he rarely concealed his disdain for the sharpies of Wall Street, the financiers who made money by trading paper instead of building businesses. He came by his views honestly, via Midland, Texas, where he had struggled and ultimately failed in the oil business in the 1980's, and had watched as investment bankers fled, taking their cash with them, as soon as crude prices began to plummet. As recently as last July, Bush was sharing...
After harshly rebuking Lott on Dec. 12 for his praise of Thurmond's segregationist presidential bid in 1948, Bush went silent--annoying Senators who wanted to give Lott an embrace as well as those who wanted a push. Instead Bush played the old Washington game he claims to disdain: letting surrogates put out the message. Anonymous White House aides leaked daily that Bush wanted Lott to resign, while Secretary of State Colin Powell and Bush's brother Jeb, the Florida Governor, went public with anti-Lott comments...
...that could be described as politely tenacious. In her accounting classes at Mississippi State University in the mid-1980s, Cooper used to sit in the front row, dead center, says Phyllis Massey, her college roommate. And she would proceed to pepper the professor with questions, oblivious to her classmates' disdain. "It didn't matter if the bell was fixin' to ring. If she wanted to know something, she wanted to know," says Massey...