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Despite the vastly improved effort, the losses sink the Crimson to ninth place in the conference, with a .412 winning percentage. This sets up a critical road trip to Princeton and Yale next weekend...
...reasoning is simple: the company has too much money. It spent $7.6 billion last year in dividends and stock buybacks. At today's share price that's enough cash to self-fund a buyout over six years--a good indication the stock won't sink much lower and stay there. Robert Sanborn, manager of the Oakmark Fund, estimates that without raising prices or touching the dividend, Philip Morris could pay $10 million a day--$2.5 billion a year--without twitching. Oakmark has a large stake in Philip Morris (and a small stake of Kadlec dollars) and has doggedly held...
...When the '70s pass before my eyes, I feel myself sink again into the murk, sucked back into the violence and stupidity, the sleaze and failure, the narcissism and paranoia. It all comes back: riots at the gas pumps, terrorists on every flight, double-digit inflation, the last ignominious helicopters out of Saigon, the explosion of crime, the lousy cars from Detroit, Nixon's sweating upper lip as he says good-bye, the Club of Rome's gaudy apocalypse, the massive dumbing down of everything, and the perfect denouement - the Ayatollah and the hostage crisis...
Unlike Bill Bradley, I'm not prepared to call the man dishonest or morph him into Nixon. But at times, when Gore descends to the politics he disdains, he can't find the level beneath which he will not sink. At the 1996 convention he described how he sat at the deathbed of his younger sister in 1984 as she succumbed to the ravages of lung cancer, and how he vowed to fight tobacco until he drew "his last breath." Problem with that was he had made a 1988 speech to North Carolina farmers in which he extolled the joys...
...memories flash by or linger, their movement evoking the river and sea of his titles. The beginning of the book is restless, hopping from name to name and from event to event. He pulls us, splashing, along the surface of the years. But he soon slows and we sink deeper--into his thoughts about living in the Diaspora, a tension that will return again and again. He delves into long discussions of Reagan's actions in the Bitburg Affair and of French president Francois Mitterrand. His thoughts are fascinating. I have said that Wiesel's reflections are not emotionally intimate...