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...investor psychology, it has turned circus-freak ugly. Not a serious buyer in sight. Cash is piling up in money funds, which stand at a record $1.8 trillion. Cash at stock mutual funds equals 5.3% of assets, up from 4% in March. Yet to bulls, these stockpiles represent buying power ready to push prices higher. "I've never seen so many people on Wall Street talking to so many other people on Wall Street trying to figure out what's happening," confesses John Manley, a market strategist at Salomon Smith Barney...
...fray and try to enlarge the notion of his presidency in the public mind. Nominees for the bad-cop job include Lieberman and Daschle, both of whom have a way with the velvet hammer. It would give Lieberman something to do, because nobody around Gore would expect this control-freak President to give his Vice President as much responsibility as Clinton gave Gore...
Granted, the University cannot be held responsible for freak accidents, but many of the problems that have been occurring are clearly predictable and preventable. For example, the recent problems with the elevators in Pforzheimer House, which stalled for hours at a time, were the result of aging. Perhaps the elevators should have been replaced earlier to prevent students from getting trapped for hours at a time...
...freak accident forced the women's hockey team to delay their game against Minnesota, which had originally been scheduled...
...hall, and I was forced to face the constant taunting of my prefectees, who officially dubbed me the "loser prefect." Yes, I used to be cool, I used to be composed. But after I professed my (perfectly legitimate) love of the Backstreet Boys to the world, I became a freak...