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...when God and Satan speculate like racing touts about whether Job can go a mile and a quarter on a muddy track. In Bush's usage, evil has the perverse prestige of Milton's defiant Lucifer. Evil emanates, implicitly, from a devilish intelligence with horns and a tail, an absolutely malevolent personality, God's rival in the cosmos, condemned to lose the fight (eventually) but powerful in the world...
...when God and Satan speculate like racing touts about whether Job can go a mile and a quarter on a muddy track. In Bush's usage, evil has the perverse prestige of Milton's defiant Lucifer. Evil emanates, implicitly, from a devilish intelligence with horns and a tail, an absolutely malevolent personality, God's rival in the cosmos, condemned to lose the fight (eventually) but powerful in the world...
Here's a nightmare scenario: Iraqi ground troops led by the Republican Guard resist to the bitter end. Saddam hunkers down in a densely populated section of Baghdad, broadcasting calls for sabotage against oil facilities around the Persian Gulf. Large-scale battles tail off in a few weeks, but sporadic attacks on U.S. forces and oil installations continue. Fearful workers and engineers refuse to operate Iraq's oil fields, which close down for as long as six months. In this case, experts say, prices would probably peak above $40 per bbl. and, once fighting ended, fall gradually by year...
STEIN: A dividend obviously is more attractive in view of the President's plan. But the tail shouldn't wag the dog. First are the fundamentals of the company. We like energy: Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco [4.4%] and ConocoPhillips [3.5%]. They have strong balance sheets and have increased their dividends. We are also looking at health care, including Pfizer [2%]. In the consumer area, companies with reasonable valuations include ConAgra...
...watercress soup was dramatically decanted at the table from a small jug into a square bowl (presumably in keeping with the new name) in the center of which sat a small piece of lobster tail. The appearance was stunning, the soup a deep green that would have seemed more at home on a canvas than at a dinner table. That said, it should have been warmer—a frequent problem—and desperately needed more salt. Salt and pepper shakers are not put on the table, a rather affected touch, it seems, and if management is determined...