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...Business School and, during his time there, was able to develop his business plan. The business took off from there. In response to a question about the market for organic “craft” beers, he replied, “You read about all the gloom and doom. In this economy, people first drink more booze but also drink better beer. People are just getting more and more used to craft beers.” One of the goals of the pub has been to make craft beers—which come from smaller breweries—accessible...
...agonize about graduate school, write trivial articles for The Crimson, all without thinking about the inexorable outward stretching of the universe (Annie Hall might not be up-to-date on the most recent developments in physics, but every theory I’ve come across ends in inevitable cosmological doom). As an English concentrator, I’ve written four papers on Hamlet, and read the play countless times. Yet not once while I was preening my way to an A-minus did I pause with mortal anxiety over the harrowing image of Hamlet addressing Yorick’s skull...
...Monday, the head of the national airline regulator announced he will begin grounding flights within a few days if a new deal isn't reached. The sense of impending doom, said the pilots' main negotiator, was part of a plot. "Someone wants to create a company that produces the forms of serious psychological pressures on pilots that can cause airplane crashes," he said...
...Democratic Party is having one of its periodic freak-outs. John McCain has pulled ahead in a few polls, and the party's many doom-and-gloomers are fretting that Barack Obama is frittering away a can't-lose election, lagging behind generic Democrats in a generic Democratic year. They worry that he's too professorial, too nuanced, too dispassionate, too above-the-fray cool. They want him to run straight at McCain's distortions, throw some fastballs, show voters he's a scrapper. They fear that his message of change has grown stale, that his efforts to paint McCain...
...Obama agenda?" Plouffe might have added that party Chicken Littles predicted Obama's demise a year ago, when they said Hillary Clinton would bury him unless he got nasty. Before Iowa, they doubted his ability to attract white votes; before his Iraq trip, they warned that a gaffe could doom his candidacy; before his convention, they said lingering resentments from the primary could overshadow his coronation. On Sept. 8, the New York Times reported on Democratic fears that Obama was struggling to raise money, shortly before he announced a record-breaking $66 million haul for August...