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...lips in the financial world early this month. If you invested $1,000 in Nortel Networks a year ago, you would now have stock worth less than $100. If instead you spent $1,000 on Budweiser and drank it, you would have not just the obvious reason to smile but a subtle one too. On the basis of a nickel-per-can deposit, the empties would be worth $91. How's that for a New Economy slap in the face...
...think you have to be an activist or an experienced councillor to make good policy?” King asks with a smile. “We have so many activists in Cambridge that sometimes they work against one another...
...other militants who oppose a resumption of negotiations and advocate guerrilla war. Still, Israeli public opinion right now is far closer to Sharon's take on Araft than to that of Peres. All of which is bad news for Washington, but which may give bin Laden reason to smile. Then again, an open spat with Israel over its actions against Palestinians won't harm Bush's credibility with his Arab allies...
...Sometimes I feel like a Motherless Child” illuminated the feelings of slaves and former slaves in a strange new America. West cited jazz great Louis Armstrong and rapper Tupac Shakur as examples of this feeling of displacement in modern times. Armstrong wore a smile onstage, but he was racked with the knowledge that he could never be a fully-integrated part of society. This “double-consciousness”—the struggle of identifying oneself as both American and black and leading a paradoxial existence as “human, modern, American...
...many a CNBC pundit remarked about Greenspan?s far-eyed optimism, he certainly wasn?t going to show up in front of Congress at a time like this without a smile. But his duties as economic-reassurer-in-chief aside, if Greenspan truly does have his long-term bets down on American prosperity, and history does indicate that?s pretty smart money...