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...unpopular as this is to say now, a lot of analysts are pretty good." Chuck Clough, CEO of Clough Capital Partners, showing how analysts' newfound caution extends even to praise of themselves "They know that a certain number of morons will succeed under any system by pure chance." Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic, on why statisticians don't write management books
...were always relieved to reach the end, so we could finally sit down. It’s still my favorite part: “To thee Creator Spirit / I turn my heart to ask / that blessing and pure strength / for learning and for work / may ever grow within...
...biological weapons attack against the U.S. as "low." That testimony appeared to contradict Bush's claim in Cincinnati that Saddam could lob those weapons at the U.S. or its allies "on any given day." Bush sympathizers saw a sellout by the CIA. "That wasn't intelligence, that was pure speculation," groused a former senior Pentagon official...
...untrained eye, the misshapen lump of lead looks utterly worthless. But to the examiners in the windowless lab of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Rockville, Md., this is pure gold: a fragment of the slug that could link the latest victim of the sniper rampage to the ones who came before. Like the other bullets, this one is carefully carried into the lab and hand-delivered to Walter Dandridge, 50, the principal examiner in the case. Using a bit of sticky wax, he attaches the crumpled slug to a slender rod suspended under his Leica comparison microscope...
...Noyce wanted a type of hometown girl who could personify traditional Vietnamese womanhood. That wasn't easy in a globalized culture. "Every other girl we tested," says Noyce, "seemed polluted by the body language that you inherit from TV commercials, magazines, movies." Yen's body language was innocent, pure. It was language that caused problems. "When I asked her if she would like a Coca-Cola," Noyce recalls, "she answered, 'I'm 18 years...