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That's the new Ayn Rand biography , written by Anne C. Heller . It is a truly excellent, first-rate biography, at least up through my current p.111. I know Ayn Rand is an emotional topic for many of you, pro, con, or somewhere in between.

Will Wilkinson asks a very useful question : Here is a good debate proposition: It ought to be less embarrassing to have been influenced by Ayn Rand than by Karl Marx.

Given the portrayal of an anarchist utopia in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged --given the unavoidable conclusion of anarchy given the pro-individual, pro-rights, anti-state views Rand shared with libertarians--it is a bit mystifying why so many Objectivists despise anarchy.

OVER much of the last four decades, John A. Allison IV built BB&T from a local bank in North Carolina into a regional powerhouse that has weathered the economic crisis far better than many of its troubled rivals - largely by avoiding financial gimmickry.