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...himself seemed unfazed by the remarks, but then Rohe elaborated on her remarks in the Huffington Post, saying she was going to make McCain look like an idiot. McCain's top staffer, Mark Salter, unloaded a fusillade on The Huffington Post, denouncing the mocking students as lacking "one small fraction" of McCain's character and calling Rohe an "idiot" herself. Then Rohe, predictably, wrote a response to Salter. Back in the olden, dead-trees days, Salter might have written an op-ed column, and after a few days Rohe might have responded. Now each side can fire off a written...
...board. This dynamic could become particularly nasty given the record level of household and public-sector debt, and the U.S.'s massive external liabilities. Investor consensus is frequently wrong-footed by the market. In 2001-02, markets were gripped by the fear of deflation. Commodities were going for a fraction of today's prices, but virtually no one was interested. Today, investors are obsessed with inflation, while government and top-tier corporate bonds are shunned. That should be telling us something. What is it? In the last few years, as the central banks of Japan, the U.S. and Europe took...
...advice of a teammate. It’s a private ritual, bordering on excessive and obsessive, yet made very safe by familiarity and experience. I felt, throughout my time talking and eating with the lightweights, that they knew exactly what they were doing down to the last fraction of a pound.The tortuous journey from Monday to Friday and from season to season hardens the lightweights to the task of dropping weight and turns them into precision experts. One senior talked of Excel spreadsheets to tabulate calorie intake and his preferred ‘high-mass’ Thursdays, when he?...
...Though they lack big names and major league celebrity, the Cyclones field young, earnest players to give the crowd their money’s worth. Keyspan Park offers the chance to break the monotony of a summer of i-banking with a real New York ballgame, and for a fraction of what the Mets and Yankees charge...
...channels for real change, whether it’s the city officials that declare them, or the all-important activists that fight for them. I was born in Guatemala of U.S. citizen parents. As such, my priority is to the countries where immigrants are from, places where even a fraction of the resources devoted to U.S. immigrants would break the cycles of poverty and instability that so many immigrants flee. Most people, however, are more comfortable working in a national framework. If that means providing more citizenship tutoring or doing other things to improve the lives of immigrants...