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...harassment hinges on impossibly squishy terms like "unwelcome" and "pervasive," words that a thousand lawyers can define in a thousand ways. As a consequence, some despicable harassers get off easy, just as some men (and, increasingly, women) with innocent intentions can have their lives ruined. That's because intent seldom defines harassment; reception and perception...
...volume (a proxy for how much business Wall Street does) increased 178%, and the industry last year posted record pretax profits of $12.2 billion. More work. More profit. Relatively few people. Sound familiar? Wall Street hadn't been totally left out. Its firms have been merging practically forever, but seldom on such an extensive scale, where even giant Merrill Lynch might be bait for, say, Chase Manhattan. In a bull market, and with consolidation running wild on the Street, brokerages are good stocks...
...change of pace from Basil's style--while the latter is more of a spot-up shooter and half-court offense executor, Kowal's game is collapsing defenses by penetrating and then dishing to an open teammate. She is an excellent ball handler with superb quickness, and she is seldom unnerved...
...years was the all but incredible story of the demonic little man who rose through the grating of a gutter to make himself absolute master of most of Europe and to change the history of the world more decisively than any other 20th century man but Lenin. Seldom in human history, never in modern times, had a man so insignificantly monstrous become the absolute head of a great nation. It was impossible to dismiss him as a mountebank, a paper hanger. The suffering and desolation that he wrought was beyond human power or fortitude to compute. The ruin in terms...
...know the bad news," she said, "but the good news is seldom heard...