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...criticize Al Gore in your book for having "called for young people to sit in front of the bulldozers at the site of new coal-fired power plants, yet never join them nor sent them any money." What should politicians being doing? They should be doing what they did during the fight against segregation. They should be joining us in these protests, and they should be getting arrested too, you know, rather than just thinking that these young people are the ones that have...
...government bonds? Don't tell Jim. "How could anybody in their right mind lend money to the U.S. government at 4% for 30 years?" He draws out the enunciation of "30 years" as if he can't even believe he's saying it, can't believe that anyone could be that stupid. (See the top 10 financial-crisis buzzwords...
...sold its Phibro commodities-trading unit to energy and chemical giant Occidental Petroleum. Oxy Pete will pay $250 million for the unit, which specializes in oil and gas trading. Phibro is not a huge business for Citigroup. But it was one of the few businesses that continued to make money for the giant bank during the credit crisis. Phibro and Citi's global payment-processing business have long been seen as two areas in which the bank outperforms its competitors. Now one of Citi's profit jewels is gone...
...from gray to the rosiest pink: "affirmations," for example, in which you repeat upbeat predictions over and over to yourself; "visualizations" in which you post on your bathroom mirror pictures of that car or boat you want; "disputations" to refute any stray negative thoughts that may come along. If money is no object, you can undergo a three-month "happiness makeover" from a life coach or invest $3,575 for three days of "optimism training" on a Good Mood Safari on the coast of New South Wales...
...made a very kind and generous offer, and I would want her to know that I am touched that she has offered her time, energy, and money to make our faculty meetings a little brighter. We choose to forego cookies at our faculty meetings as part of our larger effort to live within our new budgetary reality. Unsurprisingly, this amenity was less important to our mission than, say, maintaining financial aid for one more needy student. We certainly didn't eliminate cookies in the hope that someone else would pay for this amenity. The FAS is, of course, not unique...