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...from the trial proceedings. In response, the DRB cited Coke for its slowness in responding to requests for a third-party investigation and recommended that Michigan not renew its contracts with the company, which expired on Jan. 1. We can’t help but express skepticism about the logic used by Michigan to end its contract with Coke. Both its process and its weighting of the burden of proof appear suspect. From a process standpoint, without the power to conduct independent investigations on its own, the DRB was reduced to entertaining the accusations and counter-arguments from all parties...
...question arose, What about babies who died before they were baptized? The church father Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430), applying more logic than compassion, said that without baptismal grace, they must go to hell. That proved too much for the theologians of the Middle Ages, who counterproposed limbo. The Protestant reformers eliminated it from their theology along with several other postdeath constructs, but it remained a looming staple of Catholic understanding. Says Martin: "I've rarely baptized a baby where [limbo] has not come up, at least as a joke...
...Tuesday while the two-year Treasury bill, a benchmark for short rates, hit 4.347%. Put aside the fact that this inversion is minuscule, and had evaporated by mid-day Wednesday. Inversion is inversion, and this unwholesome circumstance has occurred before every recession in the last 40 years. The logic is simple. Bond traders push long-term yields unusually low when they feel that short-term rates are unusually high and will choke off business borrowing and crush the economy...
...leaders to keep a $50 billion aid commitment is to protest in the streets. Another is to show them that aid has a logic. The schedule for the day is relatively low wattage; no world leaders, no movie stars, just discussions with academics and development experts at Harvard and M.I.T. who might feed DATA good policy ideas and catalytic facts. At Harvard, Bono is greeted by president Larry Summers, an early Bono skeptic while Treasury Secretary under Clinton but now a true believer. (It is something to see the president of Harvard greet a rock star with a soul...
...successfully snag a mate—whether in college or beyond—you need to avoid exuding a sense of desperation,” Urken writes in an e-mail. “And the best way to do this follows simple logic: Don’t Be Desperate. Focus on the things that you enjoy, and the rest will come naturally. Trying to force something can have damaging consequences...