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...Japanese government bonds when he got into trouble in the mid-'90s. He was anything but one of the investment banking "Masters of the Universe" made famous by Tom Wolfe in the 1980s. He was a relatively ordinary young professional on an obscure trading desk, who bet the wrong way on the Nikkei's direction; then he doubled down, trying to recoup the firm's money, and lost again. At one point in early 1995, he had half the open interest on the Nikkei futures, along with 85% of the Japanese bond contract that he traded. Those were staggeringly large...
...wife of five years and I lived together for a decade before we decided to get married. We assumed that our relationship was well established and that marriage wouldn't make much of a difference in the life together that we'd come to know. How wrong we were! Marriage made our relationship grow in ways we hadn't envisioned, and it brought fulfillment and security I didn't know had been missing. For us, there was a profound difference between living together as partners with an uncertain future and being husband and wife. I wonder if Cloud...
Albright had it wrong in explaining how President George W. Bush will be judged. She incorrectly said "this presidency has done a great deal of damage" to the U.S.'s international reputation. She must be confusing this presidency with the media, which continually bash the very country that gives them the freedom to do so. Shame on Albright for blaming the media's mistakes on Bush. Jennifer Crake, KNOXVILLE, TENN...
Columbia Journalism School professor Samuel G. Freedman also saw little wrong with The Roots’ connection to Gates’ other Web site...
...friend tell me this was impossible, quoting all these political-science statistics at me to show that it's hopeless to try to organize students," says Michelle Stein, 20, media coordinator for Obama's youth campaign in Missouri. "Now he says, 'You were right, I was wrong. Where do I sign...