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...Forst’s mother would agree—except for the one rare instance in which he set off a firecracker in his bedroom by accident when home alone. “It burned through the carpeting,” she remembers. “He told me that it was the lady who cleaned the house and left the vacuum on to cause the wool to evaporate...
...wasn’t alone—someone else was there. But when he talked to “The Other”—as the story based on the incident is called—Borges was horrified to hear his own voice answering his questions, except that the voice was decades younger. The man next to him claimed to be barely 20 years old and in Geneva; he even said...
...good ole boy, except he was just so fanatic about abortion." - Morris Wilson, former commander of the Kansas Unorganized Citizens Militia, Kansas City Star, June...
...talk publicly about market behavior, but Treasury officials believe that a tightening of credit-market spreads shows an improvement in confidence. "Risk premia are receding in response to signs of stabilization," says an official familiar with Treasury's thinking. And the recent slight rise in interest rates demonstrates nothing except a market beginning to return to normalcy, not one getting spooked by fears of inflation. Consider that so-called TIPS - inflation-protected bonds - yield 1.5% on the five-year bond and just 1.9% on the 10-year. No sign of incipient inflationary panic there. To China and to everyone else...
...Many South Ossetians have left to find work elsewhere. Alan, who didn't want to give his surname, works in Moscow as a driver and sends money home to his family in Tskhinvali. He says that the region cannot continue the way it is. "There are no jobs except for construction-repair jobs, and those positions that are available are paid close to nothing," he says. "Young people leave South Ossetia as soon as they turn...