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...stock analysts aren't journalists, or judges, or even politicians - they're in the profit business, and there's nothing inherently sacrilegious about company employees spinning the truth so the company makes money. So if they think they can continue to fool enough of us enough of the time with institutional cross-pollination, well, then they'll keep...
...didn't exactly work out. Wall Street decided that the $56 billion Armstrong had paid to scuttle Comcast's planned $48 billion MediaOne purchase was a fool's price, and AT&T has been struggling ever since - selling off $18 billion of those assets and ultimately embarking on the ongoing tracking-stock breakup plan that haunts the company now - to get its stock price back...
...medieval reactionary, a would-be agent of the Inquisition. He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people. He has spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ("It is time that [his] pedestal were dismounted") and Bertrand Russell ("He made a fool of himself"). He has spoken ill of children ("the most imperfect of all human beings") and dogs ("they are only brutes"). He has dared to say, several times and in public, that Darwin was wrong. He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values...
...been denounced as a charlatan, a sensation-seeker, a medieval reactionary ... He has developed an unequaled gift for making enemies and influencing people. He has spoken rudely of such sacrosanct characters as ... Bertrand Russell ('he made a fool of himself'). He has spoken ill of children ('the most imperfect of all human beings') and dogs ('they are only brutes'). He has committed the modern heresy of declaring that there are such permanent, absolute values as Truth and Justice ... (H)e has moved up & down the country, talking to the young and causing acute attacks of thought in ... college students...
...Margarita Martinez married Juan Pablo Roque on April Fool's Day, 1995. At the time of their Miami wedding, Martinez was 35, a twice-divorced Cuban-exile mother who thought she had finally met Senor Right. Roque was a hunky, sensitive improvement over the losers she says she had married before. He looked more like Richard Gere than Richard Gere does; he held a steady job, was warm to Martinez' two young kids, washed the dishes and never hit her. And he was a hero--a Cuban air force pilot who three years earlier had bolted Fidel Castro's communist...