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...sustained surge. Media pundits, economists and market seers vastly overestimate their ability to predict such things. What I do know is that smart investors yearn for this kind of turbulence. As Warren Buffett once put it: "The true investor welcomes volatility" because it often produces "irrationally low prices" for "solid businesses...
...begun its term. “Other [Gulf Coast] students who didn’t go to Harvard complained how everything was at their disadvantage from the beginning,” explains Salahudeen, whose heavy pre-med course load, which included organic chemistry, made starting the semester on solid footing especially important...
...seemed, the greater the panic. With no sign of the run on Northern Rock ending - savers have so far yanked out well over $4 billion - the panic began to spread. Alliance & Leicester's stock plummeted by almost a third on Monday despite a statement insisting its business was solid; shares in Bradford & Bingley dropped by 15%. Desperate to restore order, the U.K. Treasury put its own money (meaning the public's money) down. "I want to put the matter beyond doubt," Darling said. Customers' cash held by the bank "will be guaranteed safe and secure." Shares in Alliance & Leicester...
...Hitchens is on more solid ground when he attacks Graham for his comments about Jews in a 1972 Oval Office meeting with Richard Nixon. That conversation was indeed vile, and since it was disclosed in 2002, Graham has apologized repeatedly for his part in it. "I cannot imagine what caused me to make those comments, which I totally repudiate," he said. "Whatever the reason, I was wrong for not disagreeing with the President ... I don't ever recall having those feelings about any group, especially the Jews, and I certainly do not have them now." When we asked Graham about...
...seen as a proclamation of the McCanns' innocence: "In the midst of all of this speculation and rumor, we must remember there is a family in pain and a little four-year-old girl is still missing. We must not lose sight of this fact. It is the only solid fact we know. The search for Madeleine must not let up for one moment." Says McQuillan: "Richard is a family man himself, and he's very conscious of the fact that there are other family members who are all affected by this. He wanted to do a small thing...