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...this dive, you discovered that the Titanic wasn't built properly. What was your reaction when you learned this...
Ohio Marcy Kaptur, Democratic Congresswoman from Toledo, says the crisis "is as big as it gets. I haven't seen this kind of reaction from constituents since the [savings and loan] crisis of the 1980s. I am getting thousands of letters, phone calls, e-mails and faxes. A handful of them support some kind of bailout. But the overwhelming majority is against it." She cites one letter as representative of the bile poured forth against the bailout: "I live on $23,000 a year. Why should I be asked to bail out a bunch of overpaid greedy heads of companies...
...skill and guts to get to the far side of the crisis. What I've not found, anywhere, is schadenfreude, a sense of glee at America's misfortune. Things are too serious for that. But there is a palpable sense that the financial crisis, and Washington's stumbling reaction to it, represents a defining moment. The days when the U.S. could lecture other nations on the correct way to run their affairs are gone. The British philosopher John Gray put the case at its starkest in the Observer: "The era of American global leadership, reaching back to the Second World...
...reaction was not as bad as I had feared," says Dariusz Kowalcyzk, chief investment strategist of CFC Seymour, a boutique investment bank in Hong Kong. In London, David Buik, a partner with BGC Partners, sees it similarly: "After the horrendous response we saw on Wall Street and elsewhere, I think coming in around even in Europe represents a wonderful...
...black students, and one Latino student, according to an HAA official. Marshals responded to the news of the results with a mixture of shock, excitement, and gratitude. “There was no way to gauge the support I would get from my classmates, so to get this positive reaction was a huge honor,” Kim said. “I could not have had such a great time at Harvard without the people in my class, so I’m excited to give back to the people who’ve made my experience possible...