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Some investors are so keenly aware of this tendency to get spooked by market mayhem that they view their own fear as a sign that things are about to turn around and that it's time to buy. Jeff Vinik, a legendary investor in the U.S., once told me: "I'm scared at almost every [market] low. And I try to remember, when I'm really scared, that we're getting real close to a good low." Zweig cites another renowned investor, Brian Posner, who quips: "If it makes me feel like I want to throw...
...gaps, the black holes, in the country's official story of itself. In The Nature of Blood, for example, he gave us Othello's story in the Moor's own voice; in Cambridge, he bestowed the name of the august English university on a doomed West Indian slave. His view does not overlook class or other races - in Foreigners he points out that more than 2,000 Jews fought for Britain in World War I, only to be greeted on their return as aliens. Yet where others complain about history, Phillips sets about remaking it, in more inclusive terms...
...conservative base is lamenting its choice of presidential candidates as well as the priorities of the Oval Office's current occupant, the two are the leaders of a small group of Republican hard-liners working overtime against Democrats and Republicans alike to make a firm stand against what they view as out-of-control spending...
...bars on the windows would have obstructed our view! Okay, so they weren’t bars, but still...we wouldn’t have been able...
...come critics like Reinhold Niebuhr would challenge his preaching as too simple, too far removed from the complexity of the human condition. But not even Niebuhr questioned the sincerity of Graham's faith or motives. And neither, contrary to Hitchens, did Templeton. "I disagree with him profoundly on his view of Christianity and think that much of what he says in the pulpit is puerile nonsense," Templeton wrote in his memoirs. "But there is no feigning in him: he believes what he believes with an invincible innocence. He is the only mass evangelist I would trust. And I miss...