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...right opportunity comes along, don't doubt that Mailer will work with Schiller again. Which one needs the other more is an unsettled question. Maybe it always was. Mailer looks at Schiller: "I was always intrigued by what a phenomenon you were." Schiller beams. The feeling is mutual...
...stocks is a bad idea. Why? First, most previous research showed stocks beating bonds and cash by a much wider 6 1/2 to 8 1/2 points a year. Second, a big chunk of the rise in stock returns came from the democratization of investing, starting in the 1970s. With mutual funds offering instant diversification, stocks suddenly became safer. "That can't happen again," says Dimson...
...ahead of them in propaganda and psychological warfare. "We don't have the resources to carry out all these operations," says a former ISI chief, Javed Ashraf Qazi. "RAW has a budget 10 times that of the ISI's and it is more effective than the ISI." This mutual admiration may, of course, be nothing more than a sly way to lobby for a bigger budget. The scarier these agencies make the enemy appear, the more cash they can claim to need for their own skulduggery. Their finances are kept secret, but estimates put the ISI's annual budget...
...have activities in a number of the neighboring countries," Rumsfeld says. "Our basic interest is to have the ability to go into a country and have understandings about our ability to land, or overfly, and to do things that are of mutual benefit." He declines to discuss the specifics of the U.S. presence in the region, beyond saying the U.S. military "prefer to be arranged in ways that give us more options rather than fewer options...
...cancer patients, at Harvard Medical School, nearly 75% of the subjects did not understand that the trial was investigating a treatment that was not standard. Two-thirds said they did not know they might face additional pain or discomfort. Says Annas: "These trials involve a great deal of mutual self-deception. Patients really want to believe it's treatment, and doctors really want to believe they are curing somebody...