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...announced that at last the two sides would resume negotiations on outstanding disputes, paving the way for Ross to present an American initiative aimed at striking specific compromises. But the upbeat news was a call to arms for the Islamists, who are dedicated to sabotaging a peace process they regard as illegitimate...
...index's gains or losses. Now some market analysts are finding an insidious side to this seemingly logical procedure. The knock is that index funds are a perpetual investment machine, mindlessly buying the stocks that constitute the index, so as cash rolls in, the index moves higher, without regard for the prices being paid. Critics say the Dow Jones industrial average, which passed 8000 last week, did so well ahead of its rightful time in part because index funds (Dow stocks are in the big ones) are getting so much money to invest. Their conclusion: the indexes have become bloated...
...year ago, knowing he was dying, Arthur Liman told me he wanted to write about his life as a lawyer. He had a notion that he could inspire young lawyers to regard our profession as he did--a way to serve the public interest. Arthur was worried that publishers wanted something else--gossip, indiscretions, boasts. He knew so many important people, had handled so many famous cases, that such a book could have been a best seller. But he was steadfast. "I won't do a book like that," he would say. He was too loyal to his clients...
...things, for lack of a more perfect word, about a conclusion is its fatalism. The writer is perfectly well aware that the end of his or her work is near. Yet he or she perseveres, impelled not merely to state the conclusion to the perfect essay in a blunt regard, but to explicate it fully and thoughtfully, as if he or she were retying the ribbon on an unwrapped package. The contents of said package have, of course, been revealed. The reader must, however, be fully alerted to the existence of its contents...
...which uses its buckteeth to eat coral, and the "apricot-yellow" boxfish, which resembles "a lovely joke, a gift for a friend." The northern side of the Ras Benas peninsula of the Red Sea, she writes, is "a treasure trove of odd objects from around the world." In that regard, it is a perfect mirror of her book...