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...this changed her mind about taking her life. And she wrote me a very nice email saying that this had happened. Well, what can one say in those circumstances? We also get a lot of messages from people who have, say, been having chemotherapy. That's a very common thing...
...Even though he is committed to so many activities, McCarthy takes time to reflect and find perspective. “At the end of the day, the thing that matters is how you’ve affected the lives of others and how you’ve allowed other people to affect you,” says McCarthy, as sun streamed through the window of his Quincy office. “If a measure of a life is the number and quantity of good relationships in it, then I’m as healthy as they come...
Roosevelt was a presidential overachiever - and his swift, take-charge method of governing was exactly what an ailing, Depression-weary nation needed in 1933. After delivering one of the most famous Inaugural speeches in presidential history - does the phrase "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" sound familiar? - Roosevelt had been in office barely 24 hours when he declared a four-day bank holiday and drafted the Emergency Banking Act, which helped calm a financial panic that was quickly spiraling out of control. By the time he hit the 100-day mark, Roosevelt had instituted the "fireside...
...thing to remember about smart people is how dumb they can be. Thousands, maybe millions, of IQ points went into creating a market for magical mortgage bonds that could only go up in value. Whoops...
...their loans. This is making it harder for China's banks to adopt modern risk-management practices and diversify their traditional customer base, which is largely SOEs. "It's difficult to go on a massive spending binge and at same time create new channels," says Pettis. "The easiest thing to do is more of the same...