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Briefly, from The Economist: "Somalia's
transitional government, which has little or no control over the
warring country it is supposed to rule, was shut out of its parliament
building for non-payment of rent."
-looks especially nice on your wall-
Ted Turner:
"I'm not a nerd. There's nothing wrong with being a
nerd, but my secretary gets my e-mail. ...
My e-mail goes to my female." Added
bonus: "Mariah [Carey] is very conscientious when it comes to working with
disabled children."
Bono
nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
First
nude flight
flies from Miami to Cancun. But all the passengers still had to go
through the metal detectors.
Man jailed after using four-letter word to describe overcooked
McDonald's
chicken to store employee. Man responds: "I didn't curse at her. I
cursed at the nuggets."
Watch the rise and fall of one of the Internet's original icons,
Vanillarama,
at the Wayback Machine.
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Vanillarama in its
present-day glory.
Cato Handbook for
the 108th Congress.
Albert Camus'
Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
Prepare yourself for the next terrorist attack with
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(Page 2)
I
bought. |
I
sold.
Ditch your active managers and
get yourself some index
funds.
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The evidence speaks for itself:
"In the last three years, we've seen index benchmarks outperform 55% of large-cap funds, 68% of
mid-cap funds and 73% of small-cap funds,
results indicating that indices have fared better in bear markets than
actively managed funds." They fared much better than actively
managed funds on the way up, too.
If the economy were
still in recession, April would be the 25th month of the contraction,
making it the
longest recession in 100 years (save for the great
depression); and more than twice the average duration.
"Saddam in the house. Everybody in the house say we
hate you." It's clear the CIA didn't enlist Jay-Z to write
wartime lyrics. [includes
audio]
P.J. O'Rourke
on Bill
Clinton's emerging legacy: "Clinton alone remained standing in
the wreckage of impeachment, in the ruin of sex scandals, in the debris of
Whitewater, in the dinosaur die-off that struck the 1994
Congress..."
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Warren Buffett opposes the Bush tax cut, saying it favors the rich
and wouldn't give the economy the boost its supporters claim it will.
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Read more in a report of Buffett's
speech
a few weeks ago.
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Greenspan lashes back
at Buffett's dire warnings for the
economy.
Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla.,
has saved nearly 4,000 spiral notebooks in which he has recorded every
daily detail of his life, a practice he has called "my greatest attempt at
staying disciplined." (Source: "Congressional Quarterly's Politics in
America 2004.")
Battle of the Bones 2004: Kerry vs. Bush in what
may end up to be a
creepy reality-TV remake of
The Skulls.
New-chauvinism thinly veiled in "masculinist irony" amounts to little more
than
The Return
of the Pig.
David Brooks gets it right every time.
Nati Suchy: "Stuff like this always happens to me. I can't
help it."
Southwest pilots fly the friendlier skies. Now we all know why
the ticker symbol is
LUV.
German Minister of Economy and Labor wins beer drinking contest,
is named German Beer Ambassador.
Unpack the
Postmodern Essay Generator's
knapsack (hit refresh for a new essay).
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The
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