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...felt by consumer, business, and investor alike before we can move on and start dreaming again about how rich we?ll be next year. The working assumption of the Greenspans of this post-attack world is that the attack part, at least, is behind us. One-time shock, temporary trauma...
...public arm wrestling is oddly consoling. No one argued about much of anything on Sept. 11; we were truly united, in shock and grief, and lingered there a while, finding safety in numbers. But it was disturbing to watch censors enforce intellectual curfews and hear of fights over the proper way to display an American flag. If people feel safe enough to argue in public again, maybe things really are moving back to normal...
This is a particularly critical time for what are known as the fine arts, which lately had become more famous for being the coarse arts--using sensation to attract controversy and attention. Now contemporary art's taste for shock value looks puerile, and its major topic of discussion--itself--seems hideously irrelevant...
...shock, then, that the share of earnings that S&P 500 companies pay as cash dividends has eroded steadily since the past recession, in 1991. Then companies paid out 75% of earnings as dividends. The ratio fell to an all-time low of 33% last year. Amid the current slump, some companies have cut their dividends--and others might join them as their profits get squeezed. Yet here's why dividend-paying stocks might come back...
Heartfelt thanks to Jodie Morse for the article "Paws in the Dust" [THE VICTIMS, Sept. 24], about Dr. Larry Hawk's efforts to rescue and revive the thousands of pets stranded after the disaster. Once the shock of seeing the towers collapse had subsided enough to allow me to think, my first thought was for the children who were orphaned; the second was for the pets left behind by this terrible tragedy. I know the human toll is beyond understanding, but these people loved their pets, and the animals adored them. What an amazing man Hawk is to put aside...