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...would think Todd's was one vote she could count on in next year's Iowa caucuses. And you would be wrong. "I'm not there yet," Todd told me a few minutes later. "The war is a real concern. We're going to have to reach a point in time when she says the war is a real mistake...
...issue that looms over everything else in the election. Clinton says that had she known then what she knows now, she never would have voted to authorize the Iraq war. But she is not ready to say the words that voters like Todd want to hear: I was wrong...
...President was the one who was wrong," she told me, smacking the table at which we sat. "The President led people to believe that he would be prudent in the exercise of the authority he was given, and that proved not to be true. Keeping the focus on the President and the Vice President, about what they did and didn't do, the mistakes they made, is really where it needs to be, because he's the only one who can reverse course...
...critical issue is leverage. Hedge funds make trades that are meant to be low risk, but do so with huge sums of borrowed money, so the consequences are magnified when the bets get too risky or too wrong. The textbook case of this was the 1998 fall of heavily leveraged Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), which briefly threatened to take the global financial system down with it. Nowadays, no single fund commands as much clout as LTCM did then, and the banks that loaned to it presumably learned something from the debacle. But the fund industry as a whole...
...after every net change--Williams became the lowest-ranked woman to win a Grand Slam singles trophy in 29 years and jumped in the world rankings, from 81 to 14. Vowing to refocus her energies on tennis, she said, "I think I get the greatest satisfaction just ... proving everyone wrong. I just love that...