Word: mantras
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...decades, the mantra about Wall Street has gone from "Greed is good" to "Banks are bad." The winds of a new Depression demand that that salutary trend of the movie '30s be revived. Oliver Stone, get to work. In the meantime, with brilliant bloody timing, here comes The International, a spy thriller with a theme worth mulling: that moneymen are the root of all evil...
...This is not a business model that makes sense. Perhaps it appeared to when Web advertising was booming and every half-sentient publisher could pretend to be among the clan who "got it" by chanting the mantra that the ad-supported Web was "the future." But when Web advertising declined in the fourth quarter of 2008, free felt like the future of journalism only in the sense that a steep cliff is the future for a herd of lemmings. (See who got the world into this financial mess...
...approval rating and one with a 20% approval rating, you're going to go after the one with a 20% approval rating." In explaining why not a single Republican voted for the stimulus package, the GOP squarely blamed Pelosi for failing to live up to Obama's bipartisan mantra and writing a bill without any input from the other side...
...case the Crimson needed reminding, the Big Green reinforced the fierce, any-given-night competition that has characterized the Ivy League in recent years. While this weekend’s opponents are likely a season away from being named among the league’s elite, Harvard repeats its mantra of treating every game like a conference championship—especially after having already dropped one game.“I have enormous confidence in our talent, but then we have a game like Dartmouth and that kind of sets you back on your heels,” Harvard coach...
George Mitchell likes to say that any conflict can be resolved, and during a storied career, he's repeatedly put that mantra to the test. Mitchell, the former U.S. Senate majority leader whom President Barack Obama appointed special envoy to the Middle East on Jan. 22, has earned a reputation as a diplomat capable of untangling the world's knottiest disputes. Since leaving the U.S. Senate fifteen years ago, Mitchell has helped broker a peace agreement in war-torn Northern Ireland, spearheaded a Clinton Administration committee on Middle East peace and investigated steroid use in baseball. Forging a resolution...