Once
upon a time, I had a teacher. A law professor, to be precise about it. (And
he’d want me to be precise about it -- he was a law professor.) He was an
excellent professor, even though -- or should that be because? -- he was known to wander away from the syllabus
from time to time to indulge in the entertaining-if-only-mildly-pertinent
anecdote.
This
particular morning, he was telling us about his dealings with the stock market.
They were minor, almost minuscule, dealings, he admitted. Still, there was
something to be said for being involved. There was, for instance, his one share
of AT&T.
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