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...BOTTOM LINE "Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction" WARREN BUFFETT, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, in his annual letter to shareholders, lashing out against the $127 trillion market in complex futures contracts See Also: Comeback Crusader
...which set the record (still standing) for longest individual filibuster. The previous record (22 hours) was held by Wayne Morse, during a 1953 filibuster against Tidelands Oil legislation. In 1968, Republicans and Southern Democrats filibustered Abe Fortas, Lyndon Johnson's nominee to replace retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren. Fortas, who was considered too liberal by many in the Senate, was eventually withdrawn from consideration for the leadership post...
Robert Penn Warren wrote those words about a Cadillac, in a novel set in the 1930s. Back then Caddies were what you drove to announce that you had power, which is why people desired them even as they loathed their owners. Today another automobile is inspiring such passions. As sport-utility-vehicle owner Amy Dickie says, "The SUV is the Cadillac of the new millennium." Dickie is 30, brokers insurance in Atlanta and owns a Lexus RX 300. Ads hint the thing could haul a yak carcass across Tibetan grasslands; though it's one of the smaller SUVs...
Boss, who will be retiring next year after more than 30 years at Harvard, leads the way out of his office and into a tangled warren of wooden cabinets, each of which contains thousands of shells...
...much and does too little to help stimulate the economy in the short term. As a matter of pure policy, says Grassley, he likes the idea. But "it's one of the weaker links in the president's proposal, in regard to what's politically possible." Former GOP Senator Warren Rudman, who is co-chair of the anti-deficit Concord Coalition, suggests many of his erstwhile compatriots have forsaken principle for politics. "I suppose if we had a Democrat in the White House," he complains, "Republicans would go ballistic...