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Bloomberg: Goldman Execs are Armed to the Teeth
… a beatdown to Wall Street. Best of all, we’ve got a company known for their prescience forecasting their own …
The Fiddle In the Corner
… when someone finally had to say, “So what’s it mean to come from here anyway?” A gang of crows made a gaudy noise … grace enough to bless a cell they can’t venture from or to comprehend the random visitor who tarries to feed a burning …
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Humboldt’s Gift
… resolutions. I grant that there are problems and shortcomings, but they do not ruffle my devotion at all. And this … facts and concepts—the slow contents of the books I studied. This was the pay-off, this was how a powerful mind … in part through my absorption in the writing, but also by drawing the energies of one obsession temporarily …
Jama’s Journey: Hargeisa, Somaliland, March 1936
… with the mushy green spittle and the acrid stink that had accompanied the ostrich catcher’s habit for the day and night … of Aden. Deserts were the birthplaces of prophets but also the playgrounds of jinns and shape-shifters. He had … alight with brightly colored straw mats. Jama lay down obediently but couldn’t stop his eyes from roving around. “Do …
The Road to Hysteria: 1940
… the Industrial Workers of the World and the mine owners had complained that union activities interfered with “getting … speakers at Liberty Loan rallies openly called their audiences pro-German and threatened to denounce them to the … expelled from that body. What amounted to heresy trials were held all over the country, directed especially …
A Jungle Tiananmen
… down a washboard gravel road—some left-of-nowhere oil company throughway punched into the Peruvian Amazon—when the … black boots, approached the car, a machine gun over his soldier. I wanted to go home. “It is routine,” Plinio said. “It … Then he said, “Look!” In the distance we saw three tiny points of light bobbing their way toward us—three Indians …
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