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...open all manner of embarrassing foreign policy secrets and possibly point to some indictable misdeeds as well. As publication day approached, an almost palpable sense of fear settled over the , White House. Some aides went so far as to speculate that, depending on how Ronald Reagan and his lieutenants react, Feb. 26 could turn out to be a secular analogue of Judgment Day. Said an apprehensive Reagan assistant of the report: "We've got to be careful. If we mishandle this, that's all she wrote...
Siegel allegedly passed the information on to Wigton and Tabor. According to the charges, that duo then embarked on some sophisticated dealing for the brokerage's private trading account, based on their assumptions of how the stock market would react to the Unocal ploy. The twosome allegedly bought put options that allowed Kidder, Peabody to sell Unocal stock at a future date for a preset price that subsequently earned a handsome premium for the seller. The brokerage firm is said to have made "millions of dollars of illegal profits" on that and other transactions...
...animals? If lions and leopards and rhinos and giraffes are merely decorative, or merely a nuisance, then the world will no more mourn them than it mourns the stegosaurus or the millions of buffalo that once wandered across the American plains. Is all animal life sacred? How would one react to the extinction of, say, the rattlesnake...
From such results, Kitchener and King postulate that reflective judgment tends to hatch in the preteen years and to progress, ideally, through seven stages. Individuals at the first two of these levels, they say, react like the freshman, accepting preordained conclusions that come from supposedly incontrovertible authority. At the next two stages, generally from 18 to 21, people grow skeptical of the notion that anything can be rationally known and justify beliefs by what feels right. At levels five and six (ages 22 to 25), represented by the graduate student, they see reality as a matter of interpretation, with knowledge...
People should take any mention of death or suicide seriously, Jacobs said yesterday. "If you come across someone who's thinking and talking about it, you should react," he said...