Sunday, March 16, 2008

weekend update, March 16, 2008

3-14-2008—The dollar hit a record low against the euro and feel briefly to less than 100 yen for the first time since 1995. WSJ A1

3-14-2008--Severed fingers of five contractors kidnapped more than two years ago were sent to the US military in Iraq. WSJ A1

3-14-2008--Caryle Group, the powerful Washington-based buyout firm, has long been known for its gold-plated connections. Is chairman is Louis Gerstner, the legendary former IBM chief, and it once employed both British Prime Minister John Major and former President GWHBush. But connections don’t mean much i n today’s credit crunch. WSJ1

3-15-2008—When the wife does not focus in on the needs and the feelings, sexually, personally, to make him feel like a man, to make him feel like a success, to make him feel like her hero, he’s very susceptible... The cheating was his decision to repair what is damaged and to feed himself where he is starving.—Laura Schlessinger, talk radio psychologist (SBT A4) so it WAS Hillary’s fault!! You read it here first!!

3-15/16-2008—I think that Mugabe will stay in power because he will do absolutely everything to keep power. A very very bad man, Mugabe....people who met him said now, this is a very intelligent man... Somewhere along the road he went bad, people can argue about why ... his lust for power ... has destroyed everything else he’s had. –Doris Lessing, WSJ A11

3-16-2008—life with fewer market norms and more social norms would be more satisfying, creative, fulfilling and fun. –MIT professor Dan Ariely (NTBR 21)

3-16-2008—the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard—HL Mencken (NYTBR, 21)

3-16-2008—I never thought I wanted to farm, but It feels like an honest living... Amherst Grad Benjamin Shute (not related to Dwight..)—NYTStyle 1

March 16, 1968. US soldiers gun down at least 300 civilian men women and children in My Lai.

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