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...extolling the virtues of the small but growing mutual-fund industry. At the time the reigning view of the stock market was that expressed 1 1/2 decades earlier by the great English economist (and speculator) John Maynard Keynes: it was a "casino," a "whirlpool of speculation," a "game of Snap, of Old Maid, of Musical Chairs." Young Bogle argued that the growth of professionally managed funds would bring a new age of calm rationality to the market and thus "militate against Lord Keynes' dismal and socialistic conclusions...
...Lord. All my enemies have run away. You have defended me." The harmony is searing, deep and silencing. And like a Pavlovian experiment, it has a spectacular and irresistible ability to crumple stern brows and send tears tumbling down cheeks. Around the set, stubbly grips and butch riggers snap on sunglasses. We journalists try not to look each other in the eye. The cast, seasoned professionals, use it for motivation and spend the day blubbing like children. We all know there is a reason why the mourning is so practiced. Botswana has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates...
...doesn’t exist anymore,” Yrigoyen said…The NCAA has instituted a few rule changes in 2007. The clock rules will revert back to pre-'06 days, with the clock starting on the touch as opposed to the kickoff, and on the snap when possession changes. In addition, kickoffs will now take place from the 30-yard line instead of the 35, as in the pro game…Senior defensive tackle Matt Drazba, who badly sprained his ankle in the spring during a team-sanctioned basketball game, is off crutches and slated...
...That's for money. For art (a book he's assembling) he takes grainy monochrome shots of scrawny old men in welfare hotels. Or he'll go to a quiet park to snap pictures of pigeons... or of that couple kissing furtively 50 yards away. The woman in the couple (Redgrave) notices him and pursues him to get the apparently incriminating photos back. "My private life is already in a mess," she says when she trails Thomas to his studio. "It would be a disaster if..." He interrupts flippantly: "Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out." But later...
...ministers have handled terror attacks in London and Glasgow, and serious flooding in several parts of the country. His sobersided approach has struck a chord with the electorate, and polls detect a "bounce" in support for Labour since Brown's arrival, which has fueled talk of a snap election as early as this fall to give Brown his own mandate. That's an especially tempting prospect for Labour after the Conservative opposition mishandled the flooding. Tory leader David Cameron chose to complete a fact-finding tour of Africa while his own constituency in England coped with floods...