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...religious people for whom religion is no conflict—it’s as obvious as the air you breathe, or your own name, and I was never one of those people,” Clayton says. “It was always an intellectual struggle...
Beyond the obvious widespread violence and conflicts, what parallels do you see between Darfur and Iraq? Derek Fricke, WASHINGTON...
...Yeah, George Orwell has his uses—but so does Jennifer Crusie. Never underestimate the value of making people feel good.”I’m guessing a lot of people made fun of Freeze when they read it, but skunks aside it was obvious from the first that Sebastian got it—not only that, but she admitted right away that she didn’t care that much about fashion, that she preferred Sports Illustrated to Cosmo. She knew but she wasn’t knowing, and so, Freeze managed to be smart...
...There is a third method of dealing with examination questions—that is by the use of overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it wasn’t obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. This is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...firm.But foreign-owned companies included in such funds might not otherwise be listed on American exchanges or included in many other funds.As a result, says Olshan Professor of Economics John Y. Campbell, the cost for an institution to eliminate these indirect holdings can be high.“The obvious and easiest form of divestment is just to take no discretionary active position in a company,” Campbell says. “But it’s much trickier to eliminate indexes because the world market today is organized into indexes.”An index fund...