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...panic, or will we be brave? Once the dump trucks and bulldozers have cleared away the rubble and a thousand funeral Masses have been said, once the streets are swept clean of ash and glass and the stores and monuments and airports reopen, once we have begun to explain this to our children and to ourselves, what will we do? What else but build new cathedrals, and if they are bombed, build some more. Because the faith is in the act of building, not the building itself, and no amount of terror can keep us from scraping...
...bumped into something that I could feel the top of, so I lifted myself up. I worried I was going into the back of a dump truck, and I was scared I'd be trapped. I didn't know if there was fire, or a bomb. I didn't know how to protect myself - find air. Go up? - so I didn't know for sure that a dump truck would be bad. I think it was scaffolding. I think I jumped over piles of bodies by climbing scaffolding...
...panic, or will we be brave? Once the dump trucks and bulldozers have cleared away the rubble and a thousand funeral Masses have been said, once the streets are swept clean of ash and glass and the stores and monuments and airports reopen, once we have begun to explain this to our children and to ourselves, what will we do? What else but build new cathedrals, and if they are bombed, build some more. Because the faith is in the act of building, not the building itself, and no amount of terror can keep us from scraping...
...recovery starts right here," gushed Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, to CNNfn, and who knows, he might just be right. Stock-watching cynics still want those rich folks to dump equities en masse in a vale of tears - it?s called capitulation - before they turn bullish, and Lord knows they?ve been the smart ones for the better part of a year...
...then again, those rich guys didn?t get rich by hanging onto run-up stocks in a market that likely still has some ballast to dump before it can genuinely find the slipstream...