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Though Ingersoll concedes there is some financial risk, he argues that "launching the Sun is likely to turn out on an investment basis to be the best deal we've ever made. For the same amount of money, I could buy something boring that I've done umpteen times over that has the potential to earn, pretax, perhaps $2 million. The Sun has the potential to earn 15 times that. So from a risk-reward viewpoint -- which isn't why I did it -- it makes sense. From a creative viewpoint, it has a lot to do with how our newspapers...
Over the years, the group has endorsed umpteen political candidates, taking them around to meet factory workers as well as the movers and shakers in the Latin community. Led by an 80-year-old former cigar maker named Virgilio Fabian, the men are virulently Democratic, a sharp contrast to the largely conservative Cubans only a couple of hundred miles away in Miami. Earlier this spring the group rallied around the presidential candidacy of Albert Gore. Since Gore dropped out of the race, the new favorite is Michael Dukakis...
Military campaigns would have ended differently. George Washington, surveying his ragged forces at Valley Forge, would have surrendered. So would Winston Churchill in the early days of 1941. The march of industrial technology would have zigzagged. Thomas Alva Edison, after spending $40,000 to test umpteen hundred possible filaments for an electric light, would have shrugged and said, "I give up. Nobody will ever figure this...
Ralph: Au contraire, my ideological one. The smile is a famed instrument of social bonding, and females are simply better at it than males. Women's greater tendency to smile seems built in by evolution, probably as one tool to make them respond quicker and better to infants. Umpteen studies show that little girls are organized to respond better to people than little boys. They are more sensitive to the crying of other infants, and even in the first two or three days of life, they spend much more time smiling than newborn boys do. Doubtless this is an early...
...governor in 1972. Bowen swept into office with the Nixon landslide that year, and sixth grader Elliott was captivated by the furor: "The whole community was just thrust into a political frenzy for months. It was exceedingly exciting, not just politically, but in a very personal way... We attended umpteen political rallies and speeches, with the TV cameras and lights and everything... Somewhere in the campaign, I became involved in the whole process, became an avid Republican, an avid Nixon supporter, an avid Bowen supporter. There wasn't much else to be in Bremen...