Word: rationale
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Friday's international contagion of bearishness was inspired by Thursday's sell-off frenzy in New York City, which drove the Dow Jones index down 7% and neatly erased $872 billion of value from company and shareholder books. Fears that Wall Street would suffer another battering session Friday proved founded...
Whether he wants to or not, Obama has come to personify this more globalized, multicultural--yes, cosmopolitan--America. It's one reason many liberals love him: he embodies a new America, more diverse, more tolerant and more open to the world. But as Penn's memo implied, that's also...
Highlight Reel:1. An epiphany beneath the huge statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro: "Suddenly the clouds broke, revealing the giant figure of Jesus Christ above us, with His outstretched arms. The moment was beyond any rational description...I had come thousands of miles to stand here...
When Sarah Palin was asked about Tina Fey’s Memorex-quality impersonation of the GOP vice-presidential candidate, she responded that she thought it was great, but admitted that she had watched the sketch on mute. When I tried a similar tactic with the trailer for â?...
But what appears from the outside as a serene Cartesian box gives way inside to something ever more complicated. On either side of the building's interior "piazza" are two giant spheres, both sliced at the bottom. One is an opaque steel ball that encloses the 290-seat planetarium. The...