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...thinking about capital markets more properly. Sometimes markets are efficient and sometimes they aren't. The insight is knowing what mechanisms lead you from efficiency to inefficiency. The second is being very disciplined in valuation, in figuring out if there are differences between fundamentals and expectations. The third thing is competitive strategy work, being able to apply tools from microeconomics and strategy to figure out which companies are going to do better or worse down the road. And then finally there is all this stuff on decision-making. Very few people are willing to allocate the time to grasp...
...whom we wish had been killed off a while ago: Claire. Notice how she NEVER asks Gretchen about herself? That's because it's ALWAYS about Claire and how important she is and how hard it is to be her, blah blah blah. Unfortunately, given the rapid cellular regeneration thing, we're guessing we're stuck with her. Forever...
...more than two years - that led to the spike in Hamas rocket fire, which in turn sparked Israeli bombardment in late December 2008 and invading troops on Jan. 4. Now, he warns, it's only a matter of time before it happens again. "If you do the same thing, in the same way, you're going to get the same result," he says. "We need to break this cycle and we need to do it urgently, otherwise we will have another explosion of violence. What day or when, I don't know. But I know it's coming...
...longtime resident of France who has written extensively on the differing public views and attitudes across the Atlantic. "The French in particular, and Europeans in general, don't understand why it isn't possible for American officials to intervene and say, 'Hey, it's been over 30 years and things look a little different now. Let's just forget this thing.' " (Read "More Sex, Please, We're French...
Quotes About: • "Looking back, there can be no question that he did something awful. It was a terrible thing to do to a young girl. But it was also 25 years ago - 26 years next month. And, honestly, the publicity surrounding it was so traumatic that what he did to me seemed to pale in comparison ... I don't really have any hard feelings toward him, or any sympathy, either." - Samantha Geimer, the young woman Polanski had sex with in 1977. Los Angeles Times...