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...Highly Improbable, gave rise to a new name for these moments, both positive black swans (the rise of the Internet) and negative ones (the 9/11 attacks). Taleb has argued that much of the recent market turmoil has been due to the inability of financial risk models to account for such black swans; meanwhile, the fund he advises, Universa Investments LP, has gained upwards of 50% this year on the back of strategies intended to manage them. Taleb talked to TIME about the market crisis we should've seen coming, how it happened and what to do next...
...Luckily, my boss is actually my father, and since I convinced him to sign up for an account, he calls throughout the day and says, "Hey, have you made any money today...
...plays have ranged from politically loaded docudramas, like David Hare's Stuff Happens--an account of the Bush Administration's run-up to the war, with a focus on British Prime Minister Tony Blair's role as overzealous cheerleader--to angry satire, like Embedded, a biting if overwrought send-up of the selling of the war, featuring Administration stand-ins with names like Rum-Rum and Gondola, written and directed by Tim Robbins for his L.A.-based Actors' Gang. The war has been a jumping-off point for psychological family drama (Christopher Shinn's Dying City, about a war widow...
...Visiting Director Project, “The Hyacinth Macaw: A Lullaby for the 20th Century.” Underneath the linguistic complexity of “The Hyacinth Macaw”—which opens today at the Loeb—is a rather simple account of an American family and the changes ordinary people in unusual situations are put through. Kline, who produced “The Hyacinth Macaw,” believes the show’s challenging script has encouraged the actors and producers to push their abilities and expand their concept of theater. HRDC also...
...lengthy interviews, Fritzl described himself as an "alibi child" who was only conceived so that his mother could prove to her partner that she was not sterile. According to Fritzl's account, she neglected him and subjected him to traumatic experiences like abandonment. During World War II bombing raids, for example, Fritzl's mother would retreat to an air-raid shelter for safety, leaving Fritzl alone in the family home...