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...White House would be wise to read the Jeffords affair as a symptom of its own deficiencies, and a warning of dangers ahead. The White House would be foolish to see the Jeffords apostasy merely as a disruptive little treachery by an enemy within...
...Montijo is an appropriate symbol of the Crimson team that left its heart on Soldiers Field this weekend but still fell just short making the NCAA Tournament for the second straight year. They probably had more fun than any other team representing Harvard this year. But you'd be foolish to think that they weren't serious about what they were doing...
Certainly, it's foolish to invest without some sense of when stock values are more or less compelling. And, for many reasons, I believe stocks are worth buying again. A host of hopeful signs has popped into view, and the plain truth is that if you don't buy stocks when they're down, you shouldn't bother at all. With the NASDAQ up 32% in 15 days, odds are the market will retrace a bit, or a bunch. But if you stay diversified with proved companies, near-term losses don't matter. Five to 10 years should...
...never occurred to me that in 30 years I may be called to answer questions about my involvement. Nor has it occurred to me that I should do this just to have fought the administration on something. And it would be foolish to protest on these grounds...
...first place, we live in a culture of pre-hardened argument, of debate as predictable as kabuki. A president is foolish and undisciplined to get rhetorically involved in an issue (oh, let's say, gays in the military) simply because it happens to be in the air at the moment. Each argument (police brutality, abortion choice and so on) instantly deploys its predictable pros and cons. I know all your arguments, you know all my arguments. If a man's presidential ambition is to see America continue as an afternoon talk show, a sort of brawling Jerry Springer spectacle from...