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...have limits. So if you have a lot of cash with any one financial institution, you may not be fully protected. Don't panic. Just spread your assets around to as many banks or brokerages as necessary. In the case of a trust, naming multiple beneficiaries can do the trick as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surviving the Wall Street Storm | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

...market, prices go up when people believe they will continue to go up. To restore confidence would mean restoring belief in the greater fool. That shouldn't be hard. It's built into human nature. This is why another term for a Ponzi or pyramid scheme is a confidence trick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ponzi Economy | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...Good debate prep is designed to build up, not tear down, the candidate's confidence. The first trick is to practice with a stand-in who has memorized the opposing candidate's likely answers. This is far easier than it sounds. One of the best-kept secrets of politics is that there are only about 20 "typical" questions. Odds are that one's esteemed opponent has publicly answered every imaginable policy question by the time the debate finally occurs. It is vital that your candidate not hear your opponent's answers for the first time onstage, since that will often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There They Go Again | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

...starting to play better.”These improved performances earned numerous Crimson competitors a spot on the stat sheet, as eight different players found the back of the net. Co-captain David Tune led the team with six weekend tallies, while sophomore Alex Thompson logged an impressive hat trick against Iona, matching junior Egen Atkinson with three tournament goals.Perhaps more significant than individual performances, though, was the reminder that the Crimson by no means stumbled in the face of weak competition, but rather battled fiercely against the best of the ECAC. Of the eight teams invited to the Championships...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Home Stretch Brings Three-Game Skid | 9/21/2008 | See Source »

...other convention in Minneapolis had its own eyebrow-raising moments. You may think equating opposition to a war with some fanciful will to surrender is a trick so old it must be collecting dust away from the top levels of American politics. If so, Senator Lindsey Graham proved you wrong, when he announced: “Barack Obama’s campaign is built around us losing in Iraq.” It may be a red-meat line to the base, but this is certainly not a fact...

Author: By Jan Zilinsky | Title: Truth on a Diet | 9/21/2008 | See Source »

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