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...what about my South African Eskom 13.5% bonds? They actually yield more than 13.5%, because you get to buy them with the "financial rand," which sells at a discount, but get your interest in "commercial rands," which do not. There are risks, such as a collapse in the value of the rand or nationalization of private businesses and repudiation of their debt. But I'm an optimist. Most U.S. brokers won't take orders for South African investments. (One that will, in amounts of $25,000 or more: Noyes Partners, in New York City.) Personally, I see little moral harm...
...Self-sacrifice is an evil," Shwartz said, quoting author Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. "The truly selfish [person] is the one using his reason to the fullest ability...
...first major attack on American soil. Before this incident, there was little evidence that terrorists had the infrastructure in the U.S. to organize and plan operations. "What the tower bombing suggests is that under our noses they've been building up," says Bruce Hoffman of the Rand Corp. "It may not be a typical Islamic terrorist organization that comes to mind -- not full- time terrorists that live life underground plotting operations. These could be part-time terrorists that are in isolated cells...
...effort to bring more philosophy to campus life, a first year student has launched a group to explore objectivism, best known for writings by author Avn Rand...
...newly revived group, the Harvard Objectivity Club holds weekly meetings in Lamont library to discuss writing of Objectivist thinkers like Rand and Leonard Petkoff...