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...guarantee that the Dow won't fall 1000 points by lunch and another 800 points in the afternoon. Get real! An 1,800-point decline today would be the same 23% drop that occurred on Oct. 19, 1987. And that plunge took place after the Dow had already fallen 17% from its speculative peak three months earlier, which was 10 years ago this month. An exact recurrence would put the Dow at 5200 by mid-October...
Other entities that once made the region unique have fallen by the wayside all over the South. Friends and relatives who used to do their banking at BankSouth or Citizens and Southern (known as C&S) must now bank at Nations Bank or Sun-Trust, larger banks that have merged with the more local banks. Grocery stores such as Piggly-Wiggly have been replaced by larger chains like Publix. Though changes in the name of the place where you bank or buy your groceries may seem trivial, I think they are part of a larger, unfortunate trend--the homogenization...
...decades, Americans feeling uneasy about crime belabored government and the police about soaring murder rates. As is now well-known, the authorities and some favorable social trends have done their work, and the violent-crime rates have fallen dramatically. Yet the unease remains--correctly, some scholars think. American crime rates still dwarf those of other industrial democracies. Moreover, in 1995, the percentage of murders committed by strangers was at a startling rate of 55%. Jack Levin, director of the Program for the Study for Violence at Northeastern University, notes that fear responds to crime quality as well as quantity...
...ultimately through his very visible links to the grand and the fallen, the fabulous and semifabulous, that Versace left his most significant cultural legacy. The first designer to use known magazine models at his runway shows in the early '80s and the first to shrewdly place celebrities like Bruce Springsteen and Sylvester Stallone in the front rows of his audiences, Versace fused the cults of celebrity and style. The spectacles he created, replete with the blaring sounds of rockers like George Michael and clothes that were just as loud, earned the designer all the publicity they were meant to garner...
...frontier myth, in one of its aspects, denied original sin. Sin is not original but cumulative. The origins are pure. Nature is sinless, before an overlay of mounting compromises and concessions induces a weary cynicism. Even Mr. Smith's fallen idol, the worldly Senator Paine (Claude Rains), was unsullied before he breathed in the big-city corruptions of Washington...