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...bull market for six years. It's true. Despite the burst bubble, most stocks are up 75% or more since the end of 1999. They're probably not the ones you own, though. Big-name companies like GE, Pfizer and Microsoft--which investors and mutual-fund managers tend to gravitate to--have been flailing since the bust. That's why the popular market gauges that those stocks dominate (Dow Jones industrial average, Standard & Poor's 500) still languish below their old highs. Yet the time may have come to stock up on the U.S.'s most recognizable corporate...
...cities have it quite as bad as Baltimore. The city's highest-crime areas tend to be close-knit, insular communities where everybody knows everybody else's business, including who's talking to the police. Mix in a high-stakes drug trade and a flood of handguns, and you have a recipe for a pitiless war on witnesses. Baltimore's problems first made national news in 2002 when a family of seven were killed in an arson attack after they helped police identify drug dealers in their neighborhood...
...Nazi movement. This book should lay to rest the notion that there is any necessary correlation between the kind of intelligence that wins Nobel Prizes and the kind of political humility that democracy requires. In fact, because they consider themselves intellectually superior to the rest of the population, academics tend to be uncommonly impatient with the democratic process...
...Liberals tend to be more culturally sensitive to minorities,” he added. “They don’t want to risk being offensive or anti...
...Thus, these policies tend to benefit districts that are less poor and are serving whites over those that are poorer and serving minorities,” she said...