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...representative for Stone calls the charges "ridiculously bizarre," and in a reply published in L.A. Weekly, Stone mused about the tenuous causal links between art and reality: "Has your lawyer-husband been unfaithful? Why, then, slap a summons on John Grisham, since, after all, he wrote The Firm." While acknowledging the film had an "impact" on viewers, the director suggests that Grisham might better focus his anger on "gun-toting crazies...
...When the Business Review went to employees rather than contractors, there were a number of people brought in, and some of them may have been younger than Mr. Bobrick; but it was not a causal relationship," Ryan said. "Age had nothing to do with...
...second argument for the death penalty is its deterrent value. However, no causal relationship between the death penalty and fewer murders has ever been established. Logically, do you think someone irrational enough to consider murder actually weighs the implications of death versus life without parole...
...award committee cited Rubin's contributions to "statistics and methodology, particularly in causal inference; design and analysis of experimental and sample surveys treatment of missing data; Bayesian data analysis, methods of imputations for non-response; equating tests; and a variety of applications...
...networks consisting of millions of tiny threads or capillaries that not only transmit information of all kinds at lightning speed, but also convey integrated models of social, political and economic behavior...The life of the human race is completely interconnected not only in the informational sense, but in the causal sense as well....We are familiar with CNN and Chernobyl, and we know who the Rolling stones, or Nelson Mandela or Salman Rushdie...