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...Traders, however, are their own community - the ear of a stranger with a notebook and a tape recorder is nobody's first choice. Aside from a filial tolerance of floor-roamers like Maria Bartiromo and their camera crews, the NYSE is not built for media, and Wall Street as a news object is the opposite of Washington - it doesn?t need or want coverage to make its living, and traders don?t do soundbites in the best of times...
Scalise is no stranger to Harvard athletics. He previously served as the coach to both the men’s lacrosse and women’s soccer teams...
...also especially startling, says Weiner. Most "customers" are men, often married with children of their own, and men who are away from home for stretches at a time, at conventions for example, or at truck stops during long road trips. The study also shatters the stereotype of the "stranger with candy" sex predator: Researchers found that 47 percent of sex abuse is committed by family members, 49 percent by acquaintances like coaches or teachers, and just four percent by strangers...
...point of U.S.-Japan relations or that the Japanese media continue to cover every foolish escapade by U.S. servicemen. And there are many such episodes. During a single week in late July, one U.S. serviceman in Okinawa fired a BB gun at pizza-delivery boys, another tipped over a stranger's motor scooter, another set fire to a car, and a Marine lance corporal was sentenced to five years for arson attacks on stores...
...Unity of Knowledge (1998). "They assumed a lawful, perfectible material world in which knowledge is unified across the sciences and the humanities." Consilience received its customary share of praise and criticism, especially from detractors who found Wilson's conclusions naively optimistic. But he makes a persuasive argument that stranger convergences have already occurred and will occur again...