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...industry rests mainly with the states, which are short on resources--a condition that may have allowed abuses to incubate. Insurer Marsh & McLennan, formerly run by Greenberg's son Jeffrey, agreed to pay $850 million to settle civil fraud charges earlier this year. Others being probed include Chubb, Swiss Reinsurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buffett's Balancing Act | 4/4/2005 | See Source »

Callahan, J. A.; Case, K. M.; Caulfield, R. L.; Chalkey, E. G. S.; Chandler, M.; Chubb, W.; Clark, A. M.; Coffin, K. P.; Coggins, P. B.; Cohen, A. H.; Connor, J. E., Jr.; Coolidge, F. P., Jr.; Cornell, J. H.; Craighton, R. L.; Cutler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW HOUSE MEMBERS | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

Begley paced Penn with a game-high 17 points, hitting five of his nine three-point attempts, and forward Adam Chubb chipped in 10 points and 10 rebounds, but committed six turnovers...

Author: By Alan G. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Quaker Offense Stifles M. Hoops | 3/8/2004 | See Source »

Even as she is drawn into Chubb's beguilements, Wode-Douglass is a brittle, amusing narrator. But eventually she's just the audience for Chubb's less gripping story of his daughter's kidnapping by McCorkle, the figment with a beating heart. With this, the book seems to move from novel to fable, a world in which poems and children all have uncertain parentage. Even so, decoding that fable is another kind of pleasure. Carey's book begins with a quote from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Here's a story with another monster who strode into the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhyme and Punishment | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

Slater warns Wode-Douglass that Chubb is a hoaxer and that McCorkle is merely a phantom. This seems to explain everything until Chubb tells her the almost convincing story of how McCorkle--powerful, angry and nearly 7 ft. tall--turned up one day in the flesh. Is McCorkle flesh and blood or a projection of Chubb's imagination? And since Chubb's own verse is mush, how could he possibly have been the real author of McCorkle's stunning poems--the work of a man who had "ripped up history and nailed it back together with its viscera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rhyme and Punishment | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

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