Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best, however, when he tries to go beyond the gangsta posturings. The most impressive track on the album is a classic story of a near-death experience leading to spiritual insight. In the song Murder Was the Case (Death After Visualizing Eternity), Snoop is gravely wounded by a gunshot but hears an otherworldly voice offering to change his life. "Will I be the G that I was?" Snoop asks. "I'll make your life better than you could imagine or even dream of," the supernatural voice answers. Snoop recovers, showers gifts on his family and tries to turn peaceful...
...true? Yes. Cool trivia? Yes. Useful as insight into The Game...
...stands in A Big Storm Knocked It Over, Colwin's idea is that normal men and women can sometimes lead reasonably happy lives. This insight hardly merits the implied crisis of the big storm of her title. Colwin draws a parallel between a sudden thunder-storm in the country which knocks physical things over, and marriage, pregnancy and parenthood, which knock abstract things over. Don't fret, she advises, it's not the end of the world. Yeah, and? The book does not empower the reader to face the world; it does not inspire the reader to have faith...
...staying in for the long haul than they ! would by selling their funds at a loss. Most investors have been behaving as if that was true. "People redeem much less than they used to in a bear market," says Avi Nachmany, an analyst with the research firm Strategic Insight, which recently examined seven bear markets over a period of 30 years. "When people don't know what to do, they tend to do less." Case in point: holders of stock funds cashed in just 2% of their assets in the 1987 crash, according to the Investment Company Institute, the fund...
Although Ms. Werner responded to our questions in a drunken slur and from somewhere inside a thick cloud of Cuban cigar smoke, she revealed herself, contrary to legend, to be charming, polite and full of old-world insight...