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Another attack on the home front. A Pentagon stumble abroad. Something as rational as a widespread consumer belt-tightening. At this point, it wouldn?t take much. So what?s another 50 points? This is no time for Greenspan to wager his legacy on standing still.
"Shallow men believe in luck," Ralph Waldo Emerson famously wrote, but World Trade Center employees who happened to miss work on Sept. 11 must think him a fool. We heard these stories all week, and they gave us a national case of goose bumps: the bus from Staten Island missed...
It’s disheartening to hear someone as insightful and rational as a Harvard student try to summarize the attacks of last Tuesday into a quaint rationale: Too Much Testosterone. Asserting that raw biology somehow transcends other psychological and societal trends that may cause rage, fanaticism and, ultimately, desperate violence invites almost a directly opposing response: if men are savage brutes, controlled by their hormonal and emotional status and tempered only by women, then women are by nature incapable of anything in the realm of aggressiveness. Isn’t this just as blatantly sexist an assumption...
As we go forward in coming to terms with this tragedy, we must be mindful of what America stands for in the world. This is and must remain a country of liberty, of human rights, a land with a rational and intelligent constitution which has been a beacon to the...
Imminent war, imminent stimulus, the long-awaited capitulation-cum-rebound - take your pick and call me in the morning. But something rode in late Wednesday to the rescue of what was about to be a very depressing selloff. Monday?s unflinching sellers had taken something of a breather on Tuesday...