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The cover story on billionaire financier George Soros says that his philanthropy provokes as much controversy as gratitude.
actively destroying command areas and suspected weapons sites when Saddam provokes the next crisis.
The notion of reporting uncertainty sometimes provokes opposition, as if the revelation of uncertainty were responsible for creating the uncertainty.
The more you wish that Forbes would go away, the more it provokes him to stay and waste more of your time.
The obvious question such an outcome provokes (so obvious that I had to ask it) is: If the stock market doesn't care that I'm leaving, what good was I doing in the first place?