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...remark is only half in jest. In a business that thrives on mystery and superstition, Wall Street has good reason to be wary of this particular month. Six of its nine biggest one-day declines occurred during October, including Black Monday in 1929 and the Roaring Eighties crash of 1987. The last major collapse, the minicrash of 1989, also took place in October. While some traders suspect goblins, others blame more mundane forces. One is the so- called calendar effect, which is the result of October being the month when many corporations revise summertime earnings forecasts. Often those projections turn...
...camp "would be happy" to have Palestinians decide in a plebiscite whether to continue in the talks. Such a poll is unlikely to take place -- not least of all because the P.L.O. is not apt to turn such matters over to a public vote. But Abdul-Shafi's remark reflected uneasiness among the delegates over their lack of a popular mandate...
...Bush's remark about keeping government from determining a family's priorities was also rather disingenuous. Why would Vice President Dan Quayle make "family values" a campaign issue unless his administration believed not only that a certain type of family was best but also that a Republican presidency would help transform American families into that model? Clearly they imagine some role for government in the moral development of the family...
Matisse's best-known remark about his art didn't help much either: he wanted "an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter," that would soothe the mind of "every mental worker . . . something like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue." He never made a politically didactic painting in his life...
...Roger Angell writes about baseball. Here's his take on Jean Fleurian, losing a tough one to Pete Sampras: "If the Frenchman could have imagined winning, he would have won." He nails Ivan Lendl's monstrous adequacy: "Antonio Salieri in a sweatsuit." And he quotes a fan's remark about John McEnroe that hits the turbulent center of the man: "He just liked to create chaos. Because he was comfortable with it. With chaos...