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...Martha Wolf and Susan Welch Saunders' blackberry scones make the sorry impostors at a certain ubiquitous coffee-house chain taste like clay pigeons, and where a juiced-up group of local retailers and other die-hards plot strategies for the town, not just for it to survive but to prosper...
...want to stay in the market, defensive investing simply means sticking with stocks that can hold their own or even prosper in a downturn. Start with basic necessities, like food and drugs. Common sense tells you that even in a recession, people still need to eat and fend off illness. Also, while they may not be able to pay their cable or phone bills, they'll need to keep the lights on. So electric-utility companies are viewed as a good defensive group. Tobacco stocks historically have been viewed, ironically enough, as a safe investment, despite the industry's constant...
...family name, Sonnenschein, translates as Sunshine, and its bearers at first prosper in turn-of-the-20th-century Budapest, selling an herbal tonic with that cheerful word emblazoned on the bottles. But they are Jews in an endemically anti-Semitic society. By the end of Istvan Szabo's three-hour epic, which traces the family's decline through three historical epochs--the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Nazism and communism--the irony of his title is almost unbearable. There is little sunshine in Sunshine, only degradation...
...Even in his brief tenure, Lessig has proven that professors who stay on top of surging changes in technology will prosper. As policymakers stumble through the Internet maze, they will increasingly turn to academics like Lessig to be their guides...
...make it truer and truer. Good history matters as much as accurate journalism does. Journalism or history that is corrupted - by laziness, by ideology, by political correctness, by sentimentality, by money - does the work of darkness. Which is to say that, in the absence of truth, bad people prosper...