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Discard your theories about talent, size, speed, strength or depth. Here's a hypothesis that tops 'em all...and it's foolproof...
...would be wrong to say so, and worse, one would be unfair to the stupendous work of Altman and her cast and crew. No play is so great that it is foolproof. If anything, mediocrity is more obvious when the potential exists for a brilliant night of theater. Angels in particular--with its large cast, its tricky, complex script, and its logistical nightmares of sound, stage and light effects--raises the stakes for success remarkably high. What we experience at the Loeb, then, is the transporting magic of talented dramatists giving the play, and the audience, everything they have. Those...
Sure, buy-and-hold is all but foolproof for those with diverse portfolios, an endless time horizon and supreme confidence that they'll never need to raise money in a pinch. But how about the other 99% of humanity? For them, the market holds risk, and some sense of that risk is precisely what's missing today and, oddly, what may make the market riskier than ever...
...think [Jeopardy!] had good intentions, but I don't think the technology is advanced enough for Jeopardy! online to be foolproof," he says...
...until I mention that the Red Cross screens all blood before use in medical treatment that a few of my peers concede that perhaps the regulation is ridiculous. Some still feel that the screening process is not foolproof. The reality is that there is an eight week window period between transmission and detection and that the screening process is just as likely to miss a straight donor who is infected as it is to miss a gay donor who has contracted...