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This rally isn't completely exuberant; too many Street people are knocking on wood for that. Nor is it completely irrational - the recovery, after all, is coming, and Wall Street's predictions can be self-fulfilling. So call it rational optimism - a very fragile optimism, based on a recovery that...
Consumers still respond to rational incentives, not rhetoric. "What will make people feel more comfortable with their spending is if they feel more comfortable with security and the strength of the economy," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman at Goldman Sachs International.
Even in the heat of battle, warriors can be rational; few fight to the death. But the Taliban at Qala-i-Jangi truly did, and beyond it. Spann's body, recovered by a special-operations squad, had been booby-trapped; a grenade had been hidden under the corpse of a...
Nicole says she has bypassed the anger stage of grief. Now she's stuck somewhere between denial and acceptance. The rational part of her knows that Greg--who scoffed at working out--could not possibly have managed 95 flights of stairs in the 27 minutes between his last page and...
Dot-Comedy bills itself as “a musical for the irrationally exuberant.” This assessment could not be more accurate. In no rational sense is it artistically profound or flawlessly executed. The song and dance, so critical to the success of an ordinary musical, certainly leave...