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...number right? Probably not. When looking at a market as large as mortgage-backed securities, once the magnitude becomes too great, it is impossible to be precise to the last dime. But, the figure is almost certainly within a narrow range of the actual problem big banks still face. (See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...imagine how much they will like or dislike a future event (a blind date, say) are usually wildly off the mark, and that the most reliable measure of their future response seems to be that of someone who has already experienced the event - rather than any actual information about the event itself - even if that person is a stranger...
...undergraduate woman's enjoyment rating, on a scale of 1 to 100, of a speed date with the same man). Based on either packet of info, each participant was asked to predict how much she would enjoy her own speed date (in scientific terms, her "affective reaction"); after the actual date, each woman filled out her own score on the 1-to-100 enjoyment scale. It turns out that when women used surrogation info from a fellow student to make their own predictions, they were significantly more in tune with their real-life enjoyment. Compared with browsing...
...corrupted the culture of contrition as well. Public apologies now play like vaudeville: the extravagant remorse of disgraced televangelists, the snarled "I'm sorry" of celebrities who exude regret at being caught rather than being wrong, the artful admissions of politicians who want credit for their confessions without any actual cost. We've learned to peel them apart with tweezers, find the insincerity and self-interest: If I caused any offense (you thin-skinned morons), I regret it. And so apologies are drained of their healing powers...
Rolcats takes photos from a Russian Lolcats website called Kotomatrix.ru and claims to translate the Cyrillic captions into English. However, the translations don't match the actual Russian text. A joke about a cat inspecting for contraband items, for instance, actually says something about a making sure that the purchased items match the receipt. And those two fighting kittens? The Russian joke does not insult one of its former republics. English version: "You punch like a Georgian...