How will Tesla maintain its hype and prestige if its $35,000 car feels less luxurious than a $20,000 gasoline car … or even a comparably priced electric Nissan Leaf or Chevrolet Bolt?" -- the piece asserts.
Then, the piece asserts that Obama has no "coattails," based on 2009 elections, and reports "early signs of Obama fatigue are emerging".
Longish profiles of Will Self and Barack Obama ("Like U2 or the Rolling Stones," the latter piece asserts reassuringly, "Obama has been filling stadiums across America and around the world") telegraph an audacious sneak attack on the unclaimed middle ground between Uncut and Prospect.
The baleful Xinhua piece asserts that Washington "intends to benefit from stirring up disputes among nations" in the region, while cautioning that "history has repeatedly proven that outside intervention in resolving territorial or maritime disputes is doomed to be in tragedy".
His summary of the case appropriated the high drama of the Times piece, asserting "the choking fact that thirty-eight of her neighbors had seen her stabbed or heard her cries, and that not one of them, during that hideous half-hour, had lifted the telephone in the safety of his own apartment to call the police and try to save her life".
Yet the "ultra-confessional" personal essay "boom" by unknown writers that she addresses negatively did not start, as her piece asserts, in 2008.
Some contrarian scientists, as I wrote in my piece, assert that clouds will change in a way that largely offsets the human release of greenhouse gases.
Earlier this year John Bogle, the founder of the Vanguard fund-management group, and Burton Malkiel, an academic, wrote a Wall Street Journal piece asserting that fundamental funds charge higher fees and incur higher trading costs than index trackers.Meanwhile, Cliff Asness, of AQR Capital Management, argues that there is nothing new about fundamental indexing.
(3) Secretary of State Warren Christopher should publish an Op-Ed piece asserting that Haitian boat people, though appearing "scruffy and half-starved," are "in fact the vanguard of a Haitian invasion" intent upon sabotaging "vital U.S. military and civilian installations".
Just last week, in a piece asserting that "many" uninsureds are opting to pay a tax penalty for going without coverage rather than buying a plan, the Wall Street Journal interviewed Florida retiree Richard Gonzalez, 59, who chose to pay a $250 penalty for going without insurance because insurance would cost him $400 a month for a plan with a $6,000 deductible.
The piece still asserts that the companies were aware of the governments collection under Section 702 — the FISA Amendments Act — with De replying yes to a question about whether the data collection occurred with the "full knowledge and assistance of any company from which information is obtained".
