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...Some good ideas have come to me in letters over the years. Virgin Mobile wouldn't have existed if someone hadn't shoved a letter in my hand and said that mobile-phone customers are being ripped off and that he thought he could form a mobile company in the Virgin brand. I read the letter, rang him back and now Virgin Mobile is set up in 10 countries and has done very well. It made sense to do this [on Twitter], and hopefully we won't miss the good ideas...
Some traditionalists hoped (in vain) that Kennedy, a longtime abortion rights and gay-marriage supporter, wouldn't even be allowed a Catholic funeral. Others hoped (also in vain) that Boston's Archbishop, Cardinal Sean O'Malley, who has declared that voting for pro-choice Catholic politicians "borders on scandal," would sit out the Saturday funeral. Though the main celebrant was former president of Boston College Rev. Donald Monan, a Jesuit and longtime Kennedy family friend, O'Malley was there to give the final commendation at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica. (See a Kennedy family photo album...
...until I realized it's exactly what yuppie meant in the 1980s. A proud Inupiat, Nasuk said that when her people were hunter-gatherers in the freezing North Slope, they sometimes had to leave behind the weak and elderly. "My understanding is that elders would voluntarily stay behind. It wouldn't have been a cruel practice. It would have been an acceptance of 'I'm dying. Let me be on my way,'" she said. Which is exactly how I'll put it on my death panel: "We're leaving you to be on your way out of this superexpensive hospital...
...tangled in the numbers. "I wouldn't worry too much about a small amount above or below," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, who has done his own analysis of price-to-rent ratios. "It's when you see large divergences that it matters." After all, there are other considerations that go into the decision to buy a house. When Choe bought last fall, he figured the air was still coming out of real estate, but his older son was about to start kindergarten, and he wanted to settle into the right school...
...that will make my first cut much easier. I will green-light medical intervention on four criteria: cost, likelihood of success, years of life saved and a person's awesomeness. For example, we'd all shell out to keep Justin Timberlake going for another 50 years, but we probably wouldn't kick in much to spot Michael Vick an extra four months. And we can all agree that $6 million is a pretty good deal to make Lee Majors bionic again...