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...He’s very much a person who would not have a knee-jerk reaction to ‘ROTC does this, so we should bar it,’” one friend says...
...because the Nazi regime used torture. That’s stupid. I wrote back asking, if the lives of Holocaust victims could be saved by torturing one Nazi, should we do it? People don’t think of that. There’s a lot of knee-jerk disappointment, but I say to these people, ‘You can’t be disappointed in me. You don’t own me. Only my mother has the right to be disappointed...
...Meanwhile, Wall Street wasn't waiting around for lawmakers to make the new rules. Investors went ahead Monday with their own brand of accounting and disclosure reform - knee-jerk selling. Companies with dark accounting clouds (Tyco, Global Crossing, Enterasys Networks), questionable earnings details (Amazon.com) or simply lots of complicated ways of making money (GE) all took baths Monday as "Enronitis" fueled a 220-point selloff of the Dow and a 55-point drop in the NASDAQ...
...activity, housing sales - all up Friday, in one way or another, and the non-vacationing investors who shuffled into work on Wall Street for the last trading Friday of 2001 duly nudged all indexes north on the late Christmas present. Not only have we hit bottom, went the knee-jerk wisdom - and not only was it not so bad - we now look to have begun our trip back...
...wondered how I can navigate the moral high road when it comes to the war on terrorism. It is all too easy to slip into an attitude of vengeance. I take consolation from the fact that there are people in this world who provide a necessary balance to knee-jerk reactions, as reasonable as these reactions may seem at first. I can only pray that I may travel the path of peace, forgiveness and hope throughout these troubled times. I will fail miserably in this task without a rational and moderate religious perspective in my heart to guide me. BARBARA...