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...darn guy has a smile on his face. This, of course, is just Skilling's setup to tell a Dallas audience of SMU Cox School of Business types that the giant is still kicking, and will try anything - even trading "weather options" - to keep itself financially robust. Seems Skilling's brother in Chicago is a meteorologist who's gotten him into "financial settlement contracts," which are bought by companies - like malls or snowmobile makers, for instance - whose business is dependent on the weather. "We're even looking at the rainfall market," says Skilling...
...approach to life for many years has been ascetic, robust and provisional. Every mortal lives with the fact of his own death. Most people are not disabled by the thought; they are able to forget about it, on most days. We pretend we are immortal. And of course, we are--for the moment. People with a history of heart attacks, like me and Cheney, do, however, listen to the engine more carefully than most drivers. We cock an ear inward...
...really give a damn about us at the College anymore. But assuming that Harvard not only retains but develops its diversity, attracts a few more minorities and entices more than just a handful of international students, hopefully that will become the obvious status quo. And, thank God, the robust Old Boys' networking of yesteryear will resurrect itself--in p.c. form, of course...
...always were when we walked out of a jam. We made it the rest of the way to the drugstore and got that month's "Famous Monsters." Here's what the cover looked like; this issue recently sold on eBay for $45. (What the world needs now - yet another robust collector's niche...
...approach to life for many years has been ascetic, robust and provisional. Every mortal lives with the fact of his own death. Most people are not disabled by the thought; they are able to forget about it, on most days. We pretend we are immortal. And of course, we are... for the moment. Proceed as if, until notified otherwise. People with a history of heart attacks, like me and Cheney, do, however, listen to the engine more carefully than most drivers. We cock an ear inward. We experience, on some days, an unusual sense of vulnerability...