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...journey to see the O’Dea Castle. Actually more of a feudal tower, I pranced about it with a sense of ownership, and I imagine at least a few of the O’Dea/O’Day visitors in the guestbook came to stake their own claim to this ancestral abode. Crossing the country to visit relatives—cousins once or many times removed—presents me with open arms and hugs from people only rarely seen. What begins as an awkward greeting ritual soon becomes so natural that you become the one initiating...
...combined to stake the Crimson to a 28-7 lead midway through the quarter before Andy Fried ’02 and Erik LaHaie ’02 combined for nine tackles and a fumble recovery to ensure the lead held...
...traders, any pre-election stock moves will present opportunities. But even long-term investors have something at stake. A Kerry win could favor bonds over stocks for several years. That may seem counterintuitive: traditionally stocks have done better under Democrats, who generally have been willing to ignore deficits and inflation while focusing on economic growth (good for stocks). Yet that fairly describes Bush today. Meanwhile, Kerry has pledged to cut the deficit in half, which would keep interest rates down (good for bonds). Also, he would try to rescind the tax cut on stock dividends. That could cast a pall...
...clock." Campaign manager John Sears, the Washington lawyer and strategist who had helped Reagan nearly unseat Ford in 1976, believed Reagan should remain aloofly "presidential." The principal result was that he lost the first big contest, the Iowa caucuses, to hard-driving George Bush. With the whole campaign at stake in the upcoming New Hampshire primary, Reagan shifted to the grittier strategy known among aides as "letting Reagan be Reagan." That led to one of the most memorable scenes of the year: the debate in Nashua, at which Bush sat out a procedural argument in frozen silence while someone tried...
...that the next round of technological leadership is going to come from the United States. Intel is one of our strongest companies, but other than that, semiconductor manufacturing pretty much now resides outside the United States. In terms of manufacturing complex products, the new Chinese companies have a leadership stake...