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First-year Rafael S. Mason, who has two papers and an EC 10 problem set due Wednesday, echoed LaGuarda's tale of woe...
Anyone who invested in the IPOs of companies making cigars, microbrews, bagels, theme restaurants or clothes in the past few years can recite similar tales of woe. He or she was buying when the smart money was selling. The basic rule of IPO investing is this: unless you have an inside edge, don't do it. If the Indians have made that any clearer, I'll root for them this year. Heck, why not? Their decline is just around the corner...
Local tales of woe abound: there's the service-station owner who got rid of his after watching a neighbor lose his house and his car; or the young pizza-franchise manager in a neighboring county who has a criminal record after feeding the machines for weeks with his store's cash. "People have been losing their homes, their cars. Families are breaking up," said Jennings. "I had a client tell me, 'I want you to ban these things. I'm hooked, and the only way I can get away from them is if you take them away.'" So when...
...hand, woe unto the individual who makes a negative judgement about a minority individual on basis of race. On the other, affirmative action, a system which makes race an important factor in judging an individual, is lauded as a social palliative, correcting racist American society. These are irreconcilable positions; one cannot back both a race-blind society and support racial preferences...
Always campaigning, Clinton argues that his winter of woe has made him better prepared to give his second term the focus it has lacked: "Every President since George Washington has talked about how the country deserves the President to free himself of his own personal concerns and become totally obsessed with the public interest. It's been a test. But I've tried to do that." In a very real sense, says adviser Paul Begala, the judge's decision is "both a shield and a sword." Clinton will now lay out in a series of speeches things still...