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...guarding overseas flights, and state troopers are patrolling trains. What makes you think your portfolio couldn't use some extra security too? Renewed terrorism concerns, punctuated by the Madrid bombings on 3/11, pushed the Dow to its first drop of more than 5% in a year. Still, prevailing wisdom holds that investors should do nothing. Terrorism strikes are unpredictable, the reasoning goes, so you can't invest around them...
...journey it turns out to be. "Any fool can rob his enemy," she says, caught stealing from a band of fellow Puritans. "Where's the victory in that?" Grief-stricken and raped before becoming the pregnant confidante of Devonshire and comforter of the King, Mrs Bradshaw embodies "the wisdom of compliance...
Lately Buffett has become more than just a financial wizard. He waxes about the absurdity of cutting taxes for those who least need the money, and he can't figure out the wisdom in abolishing the inheritance tax, even though he probably has more skin in the game than anyone save Bill Gates. The Bushies, tired of his scolding, have tried to portray him as a crotchety Nebraska coot who has lost a step. The reality is that Buffett is simply a capitalist who genuinely believes our species is capable of reciprocal altruism. His number should be retired, his jersey...
Right now, in order, as he puts is, "to help cut the budget at Cambridge," Professor Morison is giving students at Johns Hopkins the benefit of his wisdom. But up in Widener 417, books, maps, charts and pictures about the discovery, leave no doubt as to his eventual return. A lifetime of service and association with the University gives John Harvard more than a right to claim Columbus Junior...
...inscription to O’Mary, Summers was even more effusive. “Your wisdom, Diet Coke, a smile-—what more could a man want...