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And if they know or suspect that too much success will be punished--that anyone who does too well will become a target of envy-driven litigation--they will have that much less incentive to play hard.
And I say this as someone also perfectly comfortable with computers; I'd have a hard time getting any kind of serious writing done on paper (though I do love fountain pens and think they're not at all inconvenient), and I can comfortably revise and edit onscreen.
The interviewer notably refrains from asking any hard questions about, say, the 200,000 Ugandans thought to have died under Amin's rule.
It's hard to tell if this is still the Era of Stock Market Good Feeling or if a combination of Y2K concerns, rising interest rates, misreadings of Alan Greenspan, and conventional "October is a bad month for stocks" has brought it to a sudden end.
) … A piece celebrates Fred Trump, the Donald's no-nonsense father, who built a real-estate empire in the outer boroughs with hard work and no flash.