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...Another attack on the home front. A Pentagon stumble abroad. Something as rational as a widespread consumer belt-tightening. At this point, it wouldn?t take much. So what?s another 50 points? This is no time for Greenspan to wager his legacy on standing still...
...Bible, Job correctly assumes he is personally targeted. (The reader knows he is the object of a wager between God and Satan.) The Guthries must wonder, Have they too been selected for their fate? In the 1600s, such a couple might have seen their plight as evidence that they had sinned or were passed over for salvation. But American Protestants have largely abandoned such harsh Calvinism. At Hope's memorial, the Guthries' pastor, Charles McGowan, recalled Jesus' encounter with the blind man. When asked, "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus replies...
...lifelong white person, I would normally be reluctant to parse anyone's use, aside from David Duke's, of what my people now refer to as "the N word." But since I'm being paid to grapple with the subject, I would wager that Rock is making a point about how street culture celebrates boorish behavior, and how that can feed racist stereotypes, and how dispiriting that is. As with all great comedians--which is to say, as with all original thinkers--Rock's insights are beyond tidy labels such as "black," "white," "left," "right," "offensive" or "as harmlessly amusing...
...present this afternoon have wagered a great deal together in these past ten years at Harvard. For my own part, I would not hesitate a moment to make the very same wager again—except for the convenient fact that there can be no repeat performances in life,” he said...
...meantime, any business that's in the market to upgrade its technology can do so for a fraction of what it would have paid just eight months ago. Robert H. Wager Co., a firm in Rural Hall, N.C., that makes high-tech smoke detectors, was days away from defaulting on a $200,000 contract because of a shortage of critical semiconductors. A two-month search turned up one supplier with a 14-day lead time. Five minutes on VCE turned up supplies that could be delivered immediately. "We're deliriously happy," says sales director Christine Timchek. Similarly, Texatronics, a contract...