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...Penningroth in her recovery from last year's injury. In her quest to help Harvard win, Penningroth has been working hard on strength training for the throwing events while taking care to maintain the speed and dexterity required for the jumps and dashes of the pentathalon. Although she is modest about her own abilities, she is openly excited about the team's upcoming season...
...talking financial heads who failed to predict the big rise in U.S. stocks last year have resurfaced to forecast a modest rise in 1996. The expert consensus seems to be that stocks will advance 10% this year. That is not exactly a startling bit of augury: a 10% annual gain is about average for stocks in this century...
...offers no reprieve more melodramatically satisfying than this. It is a measure of its complexity--and of the forces Penn and Sarandon have held in reserve during their hypnotic struggle for his soul--that its final moments leave us awash in emotion. How hard it is to achieve even modest states of grace in this world. How patiently we must work to achieve them. How easy, absent a Sister Helen, it is to miss them entirely...
Lewis and Skocpol claim that the "modest changes being made now should not disrupt any existing public service activity or program," which implies that Professor Coles, Master Kiely, Councillor Duehay, the Mayor of Cambridge Kenneth Reeves '72 and 1,500 to 2,000 undergraduates, were all simply deluded in the outrage they expressed at last Thursday's rally. When an objective viewer begins to consider the experience, knowledge and personal investment of those who are most upset, delusions seem unlikely. Given Lewis and Skocpol's relative inexperience regarding Harvard public service, their evaluation is much harder to believe...
...doubt he's being coy with this modest proposal. But coy or not, he's missing the basic point that the stock market is a far more important national resource than the bond market, particularly the government bond market. After all, what is the government bond market except a creation of Uncle Sam's inability to pay his bills? When you "invest" in government bonds, you are merely the enabler that allows the deadbeat Uncle to continue to live in arrears, the same as if you lent the money to a neighborhood credit-card abuser...