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What Makes Terrorists Tick? I read about forensic psychiatrist Marc Sageman's new book, Leaderless Jihad, with great interest [March 31]. I think Sageman fails to answer this basic question: If suicide bombers act out of a sense of social injustice rather than psychopathology, why do they so often target noncombatants, including children? What could be more unjust than the killing of the innocent? An alternative explanation is that we are dealing with a different kind of psychopath, a paranoid who sees himself as the victim and all Jews and Westerners as the demonic enemy and persecutor. David Levinsky, BANDON...
...What are you working on right now? CRS: I am most excited about a book called “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness,” which I co-authored with Richard Thaler. The basic idea of the book is that humans are amazing in many ways but cutting edge social science shows that we blunder and that our blunders make us poorer, less happy, and less healthy. The good news is that we are nudgeable through acts by private companies and governments. We can be nudged in directions that make us less poor, happier...
...Beer production shows basic biology, basic chemistry, and basic genetic engineering come together,” Verstrepen says...
...story centers on the dialogue of the tutor Septimus Hodge (Jonah C. Priour ’09) and his pupil Thomasina Coverly (Sara L. Wright ’09). Several extramarital affairs, one Romanticism-satirizing landscape remodeling, and the fleeting appearance of Lord Byron at the manor comprise the basic machinations of this plot. The modern setting focuses on Hannah Jarvis (Olivia A. Benowitz ’09) and Bernard Nightingale (Chris J. Carothers ’11), bickering academics studying the events of 1809 and looking to make big discoveries while sifting through the manor’s paper...
...just trying to make it through. Teachers come and go all the time, and the students don’t trust you. The biggest challenge is just trying to keep a semblance of order, making connections, building friendships. Some of the poorer students don’t have even basic needs met, such as getting the necessary textbooks or getting proper nutrition. You have to take those things into account.THC: And was there much room for actors to implement their own styles on “The Wire?” Was there any improvisation or on-set changes...