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In Urdu, they call it tez ab, or sharp water. Acid, nitric or hydrochloric, has long been the weapon of retribution for Pakistani men against disloyal, disobedient or overly determined women. One reason is that acid is cheap and readily available. Another: surviving an acid attack is often worse than...
Of course, budget projections are notoriously fuzzy. A few years ago, no one foresaw the surplus. This year many experts were surprised it melted. About the best thing politicians can hope for is that these latest gloomy estimates will prove wrong.
The D.A., the FBI, Interpol, national police from half a dozen countries - through the decades and across the map of Europe and Scandinavia - they all chased Einhorn. There were stakeouts; interviews with monied acquaintances, including an international rock star and a billionaire socialite; and even a brief attempt by a...
Certainly tech stocks were no slam dunk in the '50s, when transistors replaced the vacuum tube, or in the '60s, when microchips supplanted simple transistors. Those developments gave rise to the upstart Intel, while the shares of companies like Transitron Electronics melted away.
Kids, the professor could say, it was touch and go. The devils in black pajamas had damn near overrun the LZ at Cholon when we landed. I popped some Willie Peter from the AK, and my mortarman, Joe Biden, let 'em have it with a few bursts of an old...