Word: took
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History and memory are powerful forces in a market that has suffered through a trendless, choppy five-month period. With no conviction about its current direction, many traders always pause to remember the two one-day 500-point declines, both of which took place in October. Even Fed chief Alan Greenspan got into the October-scare game last week, talking about how stocks might be too risky. Of course, he immediately said they might not be. But he referenced the Dutch Tulip Bulb craze, and that sent the market into still another October tizzy. It finished the week down...
...testosterone level turns from the 1290s to the 1990s when I sit down with students from the Men and Masculinity course. Its wide-open discussions, on books and films as varied as Black Boy and Adam's Rib, dissect their assumptions about manhood. Jimmy Burress, a gay student who took the class as a freshman two years ago, says it helped him come out of the closet. Physics major David Woessner, meanwhile, was inspired by works like Shane to embrace the virtues of chivalry--when there are women around to practice them with. I ask the guys about the less...
...wish I could tell you that in my business I am known as Mr. October, like some sort of stock-market Reggie Jackson who steps up to the plate to trade while others quake and shiver. But I'm not. I took an intentional walk. We sold a hefty amount of stock going into the month, raising cash to 50%, an abnormally high level for my hedge fund. As stocks have come down, I have reapplied that money to the market in a gingerly fashion. But the bulk of our spare cash is quietly benched in the bond market, waiting...
...feelings," he said. I asked him why, in that case, the fight clubs in his novel caused so many problems. "Because it was a book, it had to go somewhere," he explained. "It needed a climax." It was a manly answer. Palahniuk wrote his book in three months; Stiffed took seven years. Men don't ask a lot of questions when they're looking for a climax...
...Whateverrrr." Marty Walter, eyebrows arched, is imitating one of her biology students who had the nerve to yell it at her in class. Recounting this to her colleagues at lunch is her way of venting. It took strength, when the boy talked to her afterward, not to throw "whatever" back in his face. Her fellow teachers hoot at the mere thought: Oh, how good it would feel--just once--to tell off the little suckers...