What saves [Sam Stall]'s work from being completely dismissible, if not outright ridiculous, is the admirable high-wire act the author pulls off with the tone. The book is related in a voice that balances a healthy dose of skepticism and humor with the belief that the people who reported the various events (mysterious floodings, exploding bottles, even the occasional phantom copping a feel) were sincere, even if, as is apparent in some cases, the witnesses didn't have both oars in the water. This is harder to do than it sounds. As a result, Stall comes off as likable and sympathetic to both the skeptical reader and the witnesses who reported the sightings/events in the first place.
The "comparative risk" standard established by Hope Natural Gas is a basic tenet of estimating regulated rates of return.1 Hope remains the sine qua non for determining whether regulated rates of return set by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and by state utility regulators are just and reasonable. In the last few years, however, the FERC's approach to setting regulated rates of return has evolved, and this evolution has raised new methodological and legal issues. This article examines how the FERC's approach to setting the rate of return for regulated electric companies and natural gas pipelines has changed over time, most recently including the changes arising out of its Atlantic Path 15, Williston Basin, and Kern River decisions. In this article, we evaluate approaches...
Sometimes I think New Year's Day was made a holiday by calendar makers eager to celebrate another year of business. *
CHICAGO - The shock that accompanied the market meltdown last fall has been replaced by something else: a resignation that it may take months or even years for the stock market to recover. The worst week for stocks since early October underscored a loss of hope that government actions to stabilize the economy and the markets will pay off any time soon. Closing at 7,366 on Friday, the Dow Jones industrial average is now down 48 percent from its peak just 16 months ago.
I spent my Black Friday at the Wal-Mart in Norton, Va. My mother- in-law lives in the Appalachians in Kentucky. She can't drive, so we ferried her over the border for her shopping. After she stopped at the farm-supply store to pick up 300 pounds of feed for the deer that frequent her yard, we went to that place where everybody else out there was going. The Wal-Mart in Whitesburg, Ky., closer to my mother-in-law's, is quite big, but I think you could drop it into the Wal-Mart in Norton without causing too much of a disturbance. I half expected to see an "Abandon all hope .." sign as we passed the in-store McDonald's and plunged into the disorienting, Stygian depths The rest of the family party vanished noiselessly into the pit; I spun around aimlessly for a few vertiginous moments until ...
ONE MORNING last week, a driver coming through Bowers Hill could spy a VDOT sign overhead offering alternating messages: "High-Rise Bridge congested"; "Downtown Tunnel congested." What it didn't say but could have (with apologies to Dante): Abandon hope all ye who enter here. Especially by car. That's if you could read the sign at all.
A read of the morning paper has me thinking today that we should post signs at all access points into Western New York that read "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Consider:
Abandon hope, all ye who enter "Synecdoche, New York. The new film by Charlie Kaufman begins on the first day of fall - - when the bloom is off the rose and things start to wither and die - - and ends on the last day of all, in between which the central character, a playwright portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, watches helplessly as his life careens by at breakneck speed and beyond his control.
Western culture has lost another battle in the clash of civilizations as Barbie dons the burqa. Burkha Barbie, by Italian designer Eliana Lorena, will be among the dolls auctioned by Sotheby's in a benefit for the nongovernment charity Save the Children. The message to little girls worldwide: Abandon all hope. Barbie has long been a source of controversy. Critics have taken the iconic doll to task for implicitly promoting an unrealistic body image among young girls. In 1992, Teen Talk Barbie was denounced for saying, "I love shopping!" among other things. This year's Totally Stylin' Tattoos Barbie comes complete with a tasteless "tramp stamp" on her back.
I am standing inside a concrete airlock in a metal detector. I have left my cell phone and all metal other than my car keys in my pockets and I bear only my clothes and some religious materials. I have handed over my letter of reference, my priest identifications, and signed many papers and have entered a labyrinth of concrete and cinder blocks. This is prison, and when one door in the chamber opens, the opposite closes so there is never a moment when there is an open door from the interior of the prison to the outside world. I am allowed to carry a plastic tube of holy oil and consecrated bread, but no wine, with me as I prepare to walk down long unmarked hallways to my destination. "All hope abandon, ye lost who enter here," Dante once wrote of a similar door.
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