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...Brandy, babe. Hello law-and-order on the electronic frontier. "In its simplest form, we are taking the antismut and antipornography laws that have long been in place with the telephone and the mails, and applying them to the information superhighway," says Senator Jim Exon, the Nebraska Democrat who sponsored the decency act. "I want to make the information superhighway as safe as possible for kids...
Leeson started buying and selling the simplest kind of derivatives, futures pegged to the Nikkei 225, an index of the value of 225 Japanese stocks that is Japan's equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It was a straightforward process: in effect, Leeson placed open-ended bets on what would happen to billions of dollars worth of Japanese stocks and bonds. His wager was similar to what gamblers in Las Vegas betting on a football game call the over and under-meaning a bet on whether the final score of a football game will be above or below...
...deficit's magnitude. At its heart, the BBA is a gimmick. It lets politicians fly into their districts and sanctimoniously proclaim that they have solved the problem. Yet the problem is still there. At its heart, the deficit problem is a political crisis of will and courage. At its simplest, this is all about politicians who care more about their future than America's future...
Analysts speculated about at least two scenarios. The first was the simplest. Within the coming week, the budget bill, which has passed the Chamber of Deputies, goes before the Senate, where the Berlusconi government lacks a majority. If the bill is defeated, the Prime Minister may carry out his threat to resign and force new elections. If it passes, coalition partner Umberto Bossi, head of the Northern League, may resign or switch allegiance to protest against Berlusconi's leadership...
Saying grace and the whole belief behind Thanksgiving has become minor and insignificant in comparison to some cranberry sauce and a big bird. We have to say grace, so we say it, in the simplest form, and immediately head straight for the food...