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...colleague Rick Stengel has ably and correctly pointed out in his column that the showdown is a boon to the media - especially in this economic slowdown ("recession"? "bear market"?) - which need round-the-clock news marathons to spike ratings and readership. But ironically, the media are so far also showing a second, contradictory tendency that works against this interest: their tendency to parrot the language of the administration in power, especially when reporting on international affairs. Lest they appear biased or unpatriotic during wartime, for instance, reporters surrender their understanding of English and let "bombing victims" become "collateral damage...
Operators of profit-making colleges, which primarily serve working adults, like to think they are in a recession-proof business. If a bear market forces layoffs, they theorize, people in search of retraining and new careers return to school. Wall Street seems to agree. While most stocks have been slumping, the shares of two college systems with strong online programs have surged. Corinthian Colleges Inc. specializes in health care, technology and criminal justice and offers courses on the Internet and at 56 campuses in 19 states. Apollo Group owns the University of Phoenix, online education's oldest degree-granting institution...
...domestic-only mantra springs mainly from three sources: torrid appreciation of U.S. stocks in the '90s, a measurably closer correlation between U.S. and international stocks on the whole, and an important study last year showing that correlations are tightest in bear markets--meaning that diversification doesn't insulate you much just when you need it most. So why bother...
...bear part of the responsibility for forging a new American culture that better reflects our shared values, just as we all bear some responsibility for the perpetuation of cultural isolationism. Cultural isolationism is untenable. But cultural evolution can only happen through the dangerous, difficult task of integration...
...long ago that Alanis Morissette and her badly-dressed disciples ruled the land, deflating bubblegum pop and appropriating "bitch" as a lovable epithet. (Speaking of Alanis, I was floored when I found out that in "You Oughta Know," she isn't carping about a "cross-eyed bear that you gave to me," but rather lamenting the "cross I bear." I really think my version is much cooler, especially considering there are too few songs that discuss the importance of stuffed animals in our daily lives-i.e. whenever I get sad, I go play with the plush koalas...