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...limited your risk by keeping your investments diversified. A typical portfolio of 25% bonds and 75% stocks (spread among large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap companies in various industries) is down about 12% since the beginning of 2001. If yours is down much more, that's a red flag...
...there’s one thing I love to see, it’s a huge fuckin’ SUV tooling through midtown Manhattan with an American flag flying half-mast on its antenna! What could be less French...
...wrapping themselves in the flag and crying for increased security, the government exploits the current climate of fear. By accusing its critics of being unconcerned with national security, the government deflects substantive evaluation of its policies. The plea for increased security at any cost is a dangerous one, raising the specter of a constitutional dictatorship. Open debate must be promoted, for in times of supreme emergency, if and when they arise, the mechanisms of deliberative democracy should not be discarded in favor of the unchecked consolidation of executive power. The only way to insure this is to provide an atmosphere...
...nine piece band, including three percussionists and a drummer, literally rocked the House’s upstairs dancehall—stage lighting fixtures above the floor were swaying as the crowd bounced euphorically to the rolling Caribbean rhythms. The crowd, including a huge majority of Haitians and a flag or two, sang along with dreadlocked bandleader Theodore “Lolo” Beaubrun, Jr. and his wife Mimerose Beaubrun, who provided a female vocal counterpoint. The music was unrelentingly energetic, but at times suffered from being almost too eclectic. The dexterous guitarist served up ringing riffs that jived perfectly...
...Crimson lost 27-28, but Bienvenu doesn’t blame the flag-pole incident for Harvard’s one-point loss. The race could have gone either way from the gun, and any one of the Crimson runners could have stepped it up to nab the victory, he said...