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...know we should vote. We understand what our civic obligations are and what government "of the people, by the people and for the people" means. Yet finding a compelling argument to move us from "should vote" to actually voting is tough. Guilt, by itself, is a weak motivator because it fails us if there are other things we feel more guilty about not doing. For example, one could rationalize: "They might have died on the beaches at Normandy for my right to vote, but I'm going to fail if I don't write this paper...
...extra money alone are U2's haunting, dark version of Patti Smith's "Dancing Barefoot" and the U2 originals "Spanish Eyes" and "Luminous Times (Hold On To Love)." Other songs are brooding ("Love Comes Tumbling," "Endless Deep") or simply happy ("Hallelujah Here She Comes"). Only the covers are overly weak; their version of "Everlasting Love" seems a bit too close to Gloria Estefan's jolly remake, and on "Unchained Melody," Bono strains his voice to hit the high notes, which lessens the beauty of the song. Probably for only those diehard U2 fans, the B-sides CD is nevertheless...
...Yankees' one great moment was pitcher David Wells' perfect game, in which not one of the opposing Twins got on base. This was an individual accomplishment for which Wells had to rely heavily on teammates: an error, or even a weak effort, would have ended it. But many fans who saw the game of a lifetime weren't there because of the Yankees; the game was sold out because it was Beanie Baby day. The Yanks' starters couldn't even get in fights alone; their two bench-clearing brawls--one with the underperforming Orioles and one with a frustrated Toronto...
...believe, as I do, that the Fed's second, mid-October rate cut signals a vigilance that will avert a recession, you'll find great value in the so-called cyclical stocks and in high-yield or "junk" bonds. I have avoided junk for years because too many weak companies were able to borrow at rates only slightly higher than those paid by the strongest debtors. Confidence in the economy ran so high that even companies with no hope of making a profit this decade could tap the markets cheaply. Junk-bond investors weren't getting paid enough for their...
...very different reception awaited Heaney a few weeks ago when he returned to Harvard and Cambridge, his home-away-from-home. Excited is perhaps too weak a word to describe the elation felt by the University and by Cantabridgians-at-large at Heaney's return to Boston since his departure...