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...years had spoken from it as often and forcefully as he. In the punishing travels he undertook despite deteriorating health, he cast his message wide. His flock and the world listened, not always liking what they heard. The Pope strictly applied church doctrine, noted TIME, "to trouble the living stream of modernity," to excoriate self-indulgent and often tawdry secularism. He took unpopular stands on such issues as abortion and the ordination of women. Nonetheless, his unyielding rectitude made him "a moral compass for believers and nonbelievers alike...
...cable-news cohort. (Curiously, from the news media's perspective, little girls miraculously stopped being abducted as soon as the Washington sniper drew his first bead.) Some dozen-and-a-half cop shows dominated prime-time series TV, not counting the numerous cable crime series and a steady stream of increasingly popular reality shows like Forensic Files. The result was a feedback loop of fear in a society that was not experiencing any crime wave except this virtual one: crime news begat crime curiosity, which begat crime dramas, which begat more crime curiosity, which begat more crime news...
During one interview, Ross stood beside a reporter so he could signal Coleen when to stop talking. Other times he interrupted. "Are you sure you want to say that, Coleen?" he'd say. Or the more direct "No! Stop! Don't say any more!" Her memo reflects her stream-of-consciousness narrative style. "No wonder why the FBI headquarters is mired in mediocrity!" she wrote in a footnote. "That may be a little strong, but it would definitely be fair to say that there is unevenness in competency among Headquarters personnel...
...handful of confusing varieties. There's convertible preferred, favored by investing legend Warren Buffett. Traditional preferred is bought mainly by insurance companies and pension-fund managers. But a relative newcomer, fully taxable preferred, is the best type of preferred stock to consider today, if a secure income stream is your goal...
...dividends but as interest payments (where no tax changes are in store). So tax relief--if it ever comes--could tilt the table toward traditional preferred. As for convertible preferred, that should be thought of as common stock, which isn't the best way to generate an income stream...