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...while optimism is the all-American anesthetic, at some point Expectation Inflation was bound to take its toll. I'm struck by how many people tell pollsters that the voluntary downshifting and downsizing of the past year have come as a kind of relief. Maybe we've lowered our standards. But we already knew that money can buy only comfort, not contentment; happiness correlates much more closely with our causes and connections than with our net worth. Americans may have less money - charitable giving in current dollars dropped for the first time in 20 years in 2008 - but about...
...facts tell the dismal story. In the 10 years ending Dec. 31, 2008, investors suffered a negative 3.15% real return in U.S. stocks, constituting the fourth worst 10-year period since 1871. Given the pummeling the stock market has taken this decade - even after this year's rally, the S&P 500 index remains 32% below its all-time high reached in October 2007 - many are now questioning whether stocks should be the cornerstone of investors' long-run portfolios...
Bicknell said Holoshitz came out of the room shortly afterwards to tell him and Gonzalez, who had just arrived, not to tell anyone that she, McLeod, and Schwartz were in the Spindell room...
Ortiz, who is also one of two senior coordinators, says many students also ask what their chances are of getting in. “We just speak about our personal experience and tell them we’re not admissions officers, that we can’t gauge, but we always encourage them to apply,” she says...
...member (who had Hysen as a host when he was a prefrosh) stands up to defend Hysen's teddy-bear qualities: "LOOK HIM IN THE EYE AND TELL HIM HE RIGGED THE ELECTION." Because a teddy bear can't rig election, silly...