Anybody with a ticket is now a 'ticket broker,' so how you describe the secondary market is becoming blurry.

Anybody with a ticket is now a 'ticket broker,' so how you describe the secondary market is becoming blurry.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and read more

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

[Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abrams conducted a federally read more

[Donald Abrams, MD, also commented on the biased federal approach to research. In the late '90s Abrams conducted a federally funded study to determine the safety of smoked marijuana in AIDS patients taking protease inhibitors.] At that time we could not use the federal government's marijuana to show that it might be beneficial because NIDA has a mandate from Congress that they could only supply marijuana for research to show that it might be dangerous, ... Subsequently NIDA has changed their mechanism so we can look for benefit.

Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be read more

Rapid poverty reduction requires not only high rates of economic growth but also that the benefits of this growth be distributed more equitably.

There are moments, I'll be home cooking or something, and it comes to me all at once, and I can't read more

There are moments, I'll be home cooking or something, and it comes to me all at once, and I can't believe it.

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female read more

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

It seems like the market is obsessing on this bond market fallout, which was somewhat precipitated by the move to read more

It seems like the market is obsessing on this bond market fallout, which was somewhat precipitated by the move to raise (interest rates) in Japan. A lot of the fuel that has been used to invest in this bond market has been derived from 'easy money' in Japan.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature read more

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.