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...woman has not been executed in Texas since, according to a New York Times article by Sam Verhovek (Jan. 1), "Chipita Rodriguez was put to death for murdering a horse trader" in 1863. Only one woman has been executed since capital punishment was re-permitted in American...
...mixing of black blood with white. But the voices rising from letters, family papers and the tea-colored pages of "blanket books"--records of provisions given to slaves--told uglier truths. One Ball ancestor, Henry Laurens, the first president of the Continental Congress, was also the largest slave trader in America...
...additional 190 points, but that proved to be a bottom. By 11 a.m., Peter Mancuso, floor manager and senior partner at Buttonwood Specialists, was on a roll. "All I hear is buy, buy, buy. It is unbelievable," he exclaimed. The excitement on the floor was uncontrollable. One floor trader shouted at a reporter, "Get out of my way. You're costing me money...
...scared, I want to load the boat up. Everybody will be real negative by the end of the day, setting us up for a terrific snapback rally." Moment of hope. "When?" I said, hoping that my wife, known as the Trading Goddess (for her prescient days as a head trader), would give me a buy signal. "Now? Soon? What time?" The Trading Goddess spoke softly. "I will let you know. But it will come today...
What happens now? As every trader knows, we have to retest the ugliness of last Monday before we have the cathartic capitulation. In fact the rest of the week unfolded in textbook irony, almost exactly like '87's postcrash aftermath. Which means we are probably a few more days away from a bottom. How will you know? Easy: business will be back on the business pages where it belongs, and talk of a year-end rally will fill the air. And the only people still at the corner of Broad and Wall at 6 a.m. will be selling coffee...