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...taken a while to explain to my parents that if you do it properly, it’s a lot like managing your portfolios. Could you lose everything you own in the stock market? Sure you could. But you can balance your portfolio such that essentially, your risk of ruin is zero...
...shows the shocking condition of the building that once housed Detroit's famous Cass Technical High School. Cass Tech meant a lot to me and other graduates for the opportunities it gave us. The old building, abandoned for a newer facility for the school, was a war zone--a ruin of overturned desks, textbooks, TVs and other equipment that could have been packed up and reused. If any public-school leaders had cared, and clearly they didn't, they would have treated the place better...
...guessed what had happened at key moments in my life. It was like going to therapy if therapists acted excited about what you were saying. Within two hours, he'd nailed my personality: "You have this neurotic ambivalence about going far enough to challenge things but not enough to ruin things. You do things halfway, and being confused about them is who you are." In all his fevered typing, Strauss got annoyed only once. "It's really frustrating that I haven't been able to string the pity sex in. It's a really good theme," he said...
...stroke play, one bad hole could ruin an entire match. In match play, a golfer could shoot a ten on a hole to another player’s three, and it would be no worse than if he had shot a four...
...This would be logical, and wise, in a democracy. And sticking to principles is also important, as Tsvangirai says, because fighting dirty usually ensures that one dictator will merely be replaced by another. But this is Zimbabwe, where a ruthless authoritarian government has driven the country into financial ruin and suppressed its political opponents through a campaign of violence and terror. Playing by the rules when your opponent does not can seem hopelessly naive. (Read a two-minute bio of Morgan Tsvangirai...