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...intent to challenge with my writings; and by challenging, I meant to improve, to jolt slumbering minds into wakefulness. Even if my contrarian opinions have been incorrect, I hope they have made you rethink received opinion and conventional wisdom, as J. S. Mill suggested they might. But I conjecture, with reserve, that at least some of my contrarian opinions have been correct. If so, I hope they have made you reject received opinion and conventional wisdom...
...ladies, who for a while thought they might have been counting annual club dues as investment gains (they weren't), evidently were making incorrect entries into their computer. Nobody double-checked the math. Poof! There goes their mystique, and possibly the lucrative cottage industry they had developed. Their first book, which mixed down-home recipes for the likes of Kentucky cream cake with investment tips, had that Warren Buffett-like 23.4% emblazoned across the cover. It sold 800,000 copies...
...play game-within-the-game in which Sales was allowed an uncontested basket to let her break the record, and Villanova was allowed a reciprocal freebie. (In an ironic twist, ESPN Magazine reported yesterday that a mistake in the record-keeping of an earlier game led to an incorrect point total for Sales, and she has not technically broken the record...
TIME regrets having printed incorrect figures on discrimination complaints to the EEOC for last year...
...interesting to read about the controversy over bilingual education in the U.S. In Canada it is politically incorrect to denounce official bilingualism. But providing a bilingual society has a high price. Precious tax dollars go to providing separate schools, court services and the publication of print articles in both official languages, French and English. The unofficial result has been a polarization of the country. Politicians in their quest for power play one language group against the other. In Canada, with about 30 million people, bilingualism costs the taxpayers more than $350 million a year. It could cost...