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...Your wheel of blame was missing a crucial player: Ayn Rand. She was former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's free-market guru. Like President George W. Bush, Greenspan's belief in free markets blinded him to the dangers inherent in the subprime-mortgage market. How else can one explain his failure to respond to early and repeated warnings from the late Edward Gramlich, a member of the Fed board who recognized the dangers and addressed the matter (perhaps in frustration) last year in his book Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust? Kim Gardey, President, Gardey Financial Advisors...
...other way and maintained consistent pressure until Jamie Bates finally broke through for the game’s opening score, netting a rebound from the right side at 2:43.“We needed the first goal tonight, there was no question,” Bobcats coach Rand Pecknold said of his team’s effort to recover from Friday night. “We needed the confidence from that.”Quinnipiac extended its first lead of the series later in the period. Goaltender Bud Fisher deflected a Harvard shot into the air and then batted...
...could get things completely wrong--including civil rights. But what made him formidable was the number of things he got right. Buckley almost single-handedly drove anti-Semitism out of acceptable conservative thought. He was leery of Ayn Rand, Richard Nixon and the Iraq war. And he was a staunch anti-communist. His fixed star was the idea of human freedom. A sure applause line in presidential candidate Barack Obama's speeches this year holds that "it's possible to disagree without being disagreeable." William F. Buckley Jr. was proof...
...lead, the Crimson seemed content to contain the Bobcats and let their strong defense control the tempo in the final period. To Quinnipiac’s credit, the team continued to fight, sending 16 more shots at Richter to try to close the deficit. More significantly, Quinnipiac head coach Rand Pecknold pulled his goalie with more than 12 minutes remaining during a four-on-four in a drastic effort to spark a comeback. The move did not go as planned, though, as Rogers capitalized on an assist from Taylor and sent the puck into the empty net to extend...
...seems as if the government is trying to do everything: gather intelligence, pre-empt a terrorist attack and send people to prison, even if the evidence is thin. Investigations seem to grow into case files, which lead to press conferences. "From the perspective of the investigators," says Jenkins, the Rand expert, "the more you invest in an investigation, you create your own momentum. You become convinced you've got a case...