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...everything is so good, why are investors so glum? Those who fail to take advantage of today's opportunities because of a sense of foreboding and fear of loss remind me of John Marcher, protagonist in Henry James' novella The Beast in the Jungle. Certain that some great misfortune was about to befall him, he failed to marry the woman he loved (lest she share his fate), or to do much of anything, only to realize too late that the great misfortune fate had in store for him was to throw away his life and opportunities because of his excessive...
Experts suggest the murderer had a couple of reasons to resurface over the past year. Thirty years after the Otero killings, he may have wanted to remind everyone of his handiwork. Also, the local media were reporting on Beattie's forthcoming Nightmare in Wichita. "He couldn't stand somebody else writing his story," says psychologist Samuel Harrell, who consulted on the BTK case in the 1970s. "He's all ego." But he was not trying to get caught--he didn't think he could be caught. All the poems and puzzles he created over the years to taunt the police...
...torturing of prisoners in Abu Ghraib was another heinous crime. So it is hypocritical for Americans to condemn Khan when it is the U.S. that has lost the confidence and trust of the world. Nizar Ali London TIME's reporting on Khan's dangerous game of selling nuclear technology reminded me how vitally the world needs a global nuclear-nonproliferation policy. But the credibility of the nuclear powers in limiting the spread of the Bomb is hampered by their inaction in pursuing disarmament. Even worse, the U.S.'s plan to design a new generation of nuclear arms deprives Bush...
...those who knew and loved the song beforehand, that the Shins’ “New Slang” is forever destined to be “that song from Garden State” is a humorous tribute to their good taste, and usually a prod to remind the listener that the opening doohs and dahs graced a McDonald’s commercial long before Natalie Portman’s oft-quoted pronouncement that the Shins music “will change your life...
Before we move on, might I remind you that I have not made any of this...