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...Obama victory on Tuesday would add another layer of significance to the rededication of the Lincoln Memorial, planned for this upcoming February to commemorate the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth. On the steps where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, speaking in honor of the president who freed the slaves could stand America’s first black president, a man who has tied himself closely to the Lincoln legacy...
...intestinal sac of bony leftovers that he devours, twice. But it isn’t just the food that’s disturbing; his immature metaphors are purposefully off-putting. Barlow compares pigtail fat to nose mucus: “Underneath [the skin of the pig tail] is a layer of blubber...The fatty skin disintegrates as it comes away, gooking up my fingers like boogers that I can’t get rid of no matter where I wipe.” And his juxtapositions are equally nauseating. Passages about homemade chorizo are interrupted with descriptions of bovine flatulence...
...They were gambling with other people's money.That's the point, with society's money. Banks are gambling with society's money, funds are gambling with investors' money - it's one layer better. So we should have more risks taken by funds and less risk taken by banks, because banks have a severe agency problem. ... When I trade I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line. He has an agency problem, and like [former Merrill Lynch CEO] Stanley O'Neal...
...sometimes wonder where my realness went. Did it fall out somewhere on I-80 when I moved to New York? Does it wear off, like a layer of skin? Did I ever have it? Or is it just a useful myth...
Harvard now has a double threat in the net, with both Mann on the mend and Dale developing into a well-seasoned keeper. This additional layer of experience, according to head coach Ray Leone, is invaluable...