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...study also looked at several broader political tendencies, including compromise (the willingness to yield to a middle-ground solution) and obedience (the tendency to follow a set path), and found that people who were more sensitive to threat were less amenable to the former and more inclined toward the latter...
...eminent Harvard historians as Ernest R. May, I have enormous respect for this profession. As I was leaving Harvard more than four decades ago, I had two paths open to me—one toward life as an academic historian, another toward life as a journalist. I chose the latter, in the belief that a fine journalist does indeed bring so many of the same skills to the service of his public as an historian—chronicling events as they happen, using all the various sources open to journalist and historian alike to bring the truth...
...they drove me to and games they watched, but they even brought out photographic proof of their efforts: my older brother and I holding tennis racquets taller than ourselves, swimming with floaties the size of our heads, and doing gymnastics in matching spandex outfits. (I have since burned the latter...
...will go down as an economy-shattering debacle or a near miss is something we'll only figure out over the coming days and weeks. The initial reaction of U.S. stock markets - down sharply but far from disastrously at the open on Monday - is that it's the latter. But who knows...
...larcenies). It may prove helpful to think of the various penny-ante admonitions of the powers-that-be in a given free nation-state as ‘strong suggestions,’ rather than written legislation or penal code, even if in every case they are of the latter class. With this perspective in mind, one can think of various infractions not as crimes, but as differing viewpoints being vocalized in a long and robust debate about what should and should not be tolerated by the agents of paternalism. Of course it follows that the trooper already conjured...