Word: explainer
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...Your wheel of blame was missing a crucial player: Ayn Rand. She was former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's free-market guru. Like President George W. Bush, Greenspan's belief in free markets blinded him to the dangers inherent in the subprime-mortgage market. How else can one explain his failure to respond to early and repeated warnings from the late Edward Gramlich, a member of the Fed board who recognized the dangers and addressed the matter (perhaps in frustration) last year in his book Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust? Kim Gardey, President, Gardey Financial Advisors...
...praise is due. No one has as little tolerance for cliché or as much appetite for intellectual sparring. Many a bad idea has died at her feet, while countless great ones were born out of her ability to make writers refine their thoughts and search beyond the obvious to explain something deeper and more significant for the reader. In her new life, she plans to see as much theater as she can, spend time with her husband Kamau and devote more attention to the blog she began a year ago, Broadway & Me broadwayandme.blogspot.com) The one consolation...
Amos's study included only a small number of nonsmokers, however; the European study, which included a larger sample, did find a slightly higher risk of lung cancer in nonsmokers with the genetic variants. That could explain some of the genetic risk that leads to lung cancer in the 10% of men and 20% of women who develop the disease every year despite never having...
...often been argued that the appeal of watching great athletes compete is that they seem to manage, in their attainment of the ostensibly impossible, to transcend mortality. Perhaps the Masters' success in fostering its own glorious illusion of immortality helps to explain the tournament's enduring popularity. One thinks of the call of the on-course ranger before a golfer hits a shot. At Augusta, the request seems to be directed at the passage of time itself: "Stand still please...
...militias of his Shi'ite rivals to prosper - as well as the U.S.-paid Sunni militias that are now being integrated into the Iraqi police and army. He can reasonably argue that he is the one true Iraqi patriot, the Iraqi leader the Americans fear most. How else to explain the attack on his Mahdi Army while he was observing a unilateral cease-fire? Furthermore, like Hizballah in Lebanon after the Israeli invasion in 2006, the Mahdi Army can claim a victory by simply surviving an assault by an Iraqi government backed by the Americans. That is significant street cred...