Word: walls
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...Cheer for Apathy" Tom Cotton assured us that it was not so much a belief of ineffectuality that renders students apathetic but a devotion to the experience of a liberal education and the selfless pursuit of medical school admission or a Wall Street position that leads students to "prudently choose their education over activism." The notion that a secluded liberal education is valuable, or even possible, stuns us. The proposal that one is best educated by avoiding ideology, activism, and community activity is patently ridiculous. It is a presumptuous fallacy to suggest that "education" is only attainable in wood-paneled...
...measure of failure could upset the markets. For example, today's benign inflation and low interest rates are partly the result of cheap oil prices. And Wall Street expects that a defeated Iraq would be allowed to flood the world with oil to raise money to rebuild, which is one reason the price of crude has slumped since October from $23 to $16 per bbl. But would Iraq be treated with such kindness if an allied mission were unsuccessful? Doubtful. Such an outcome could reverse psychology in the oil market and send prices higher, stoking inflation and squeezing stocks...
...share prices. But because it is so widely expected, success would merely maintain the status quo--not inspire a whole new bull market. And for those who worry about a bungle, stocks of defense contractors, oil producers and oil services companies would be good hedges. Remember, those generals on Wall Street wear suits, not battle fatigues. They don't really know a thing about...
Daniel Kadlec is TIME's Wall Street columnist. Reach him at kadlec@time.com
...startled when Osterhaus told him about the three-year-old boy who had died on May 21, the day after Lim received his specimen. Webster also wondered whether the H5 was merely a contaminant. Osterhaus assured him it was not. After the call, Webster taped a note to the wall over his desk: H5 IN A CHILD...