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...have noticed the distinct lack of such people around Cambridge. Harvard bakes its mandarins good, and we don’t fly around the system so much as prop it up. There are some awfully complicated explanations for why this is the case. What matters in the end though, I think, is the fear of vertigo, of free-falling—that is, the mistake of not taking human agency seriously enough...
...years, and then their power unravels. Musharraf is no exception. He would be foolish not to see that it's the beginning of the end. It would be better for him to go into exile now. Shame on dictators around the world, and shame on those who prop up these mean-spirited men with a supply of wealth and weapons. Charles Puthota, SAN FRANCISCO...
...years, and then their power unravels. Musharraf is no exception. He would be foolish not to see that it's the beginning of the end. It would be better for him to go into exile now. Shame on dictators around the world, and shame on those who prop up these mean-spirited men with a supply of wealth and weapons. Charles Puthota, San Francisco...
...quit their jobs to devote their time to trading stocks, to pensioners who plunked their life savings into the markets. Almost daily, myths that were pervasive among neophyte Chinese investors - that what happens to the U.S. economy doesn't matter to China, that the government in Beijing will always prop up the market - get exploded. The giddiness of the bubble is starting to be replaced by pervasive gloom. Fear is getting the better of greed. "This is reality," says Tian Junxiao, a 52-year-old investor who has been day trading for a living for six years. "Younger people...
...years, and then their power unravels. Musharraf is no exception. He would be foolish not to see that it's the beginning of the end. It would be better for him to go into exile now. Shame on dictators around the world, and shame on those who prop up these mean-spirited men with a supply of wealth and weapons. Charles Puthota, San Francisco...