Word: secondly
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OLIVER STONE Football flick is No. 1. But what about the second quarterback on the grassy knoll...
...Second, the Federal Reserve is expected to tighten rates, maybe even dramatically, to try to cool off the consumption boom. An aggressive tightening could wreck whole sections of this market, from cyclical industries like coal and steel and copper companies to banks and savings and loans. Cyclicals need low rates to keep the expansion going. Financials rely on the spread between short rates and long rates for much of their profits, and if the Fed takes up short-term rates, their margins will be squeezed and their earnings could disappear...
...main beliefs. The first is that art is continuous. It is not--whatever the avant-gardists may crudely suppose--locked in an Oedipal battle with its past. Every masterpiece contains the genes of earlier masterpieces, as Manets and Daumiers do of Goyas, as Goyas do of Velasquezes. Second, art gives us access to a paradise of the intelligent senses that, once attained, justifies itself. Its aim is pleasure. Thus, Phillips had a fascinated respect for Picasso's anxiety but no great paintings by him, whereas Braque was wholly another matter. Braque's lucid and calm balance drew the American like...
Other than the second coming of Harry Truman, the best thing that could happen to the U.S. would be the election of McCain. He alone of the candidates has demonstrated the moral courage and integrity to lead this country. HOWARD WEINBERG Weirton, W.Va...
...give the second millennium a big fat kiss goodbye, Time's Letters Department is happy to report on the robust health of the written word as a form of personal communication, despite dire warnings a decade ago of its imminent demise. For evidence, we point to the 1,300 letters a week, on average, that we continue to receive from our loyal readers, three-quarters of whom now post their insights, bitter complaints, bad puns, outrageous theories and effusive compliments by the miracle of e-mail...