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...UCLA, questioned Fryer’s failure to acknowledge existing education research efforts.“What worries me about some of the public statements by Prof. Fryer is the kind of sloppy over-generalizations, lack of attentiveness to other research, and confidence that he can understand the core of all problems better than anyone else because he understands the magic of the market and the equations economists use to describe it,” said Orfield, a renowned expert on civil rights and education who left Harvard in 2006. “Arrogance combined with disdain for other knowledge...
...Biega, who was named to the coaches’ and the media’s preseason all-league teams just last Monday.“We have a solid group of guys back there ready to take charge,” McCafferty said. “As a defensive core, we’re going to be as strong as we’ve ever been. We’re going to go out, be committed to the defense, do the little things right and we’ll be fine. [Losing our goalie] is a loss, but it happens...
...that it reduces so-called "moral hazard" - effectively rewarding poor or reckless risk assessment - by forcing financial institutions that took the highest risks to pay towards their own rescue. And it allows the state to recoup the money that it expends to buy up the bad debt at the core of the problem...
...Wall Street executives (and because they're from securely blue districts or states). But it seems clear that Paulson and Bernanke managed to hit the mark with their three pages. And even if dozens more are eventually added to sweeten the pot for important constituents with powerful lobbyists, the core of the project will remain the same. It's what members of Congress do, even if, as the GOP staffer says, "Not a single goddam one of them could explain what's in the thing...
...Sasol globalizes its business operations, it will be interesting to see how it deals with its most vital challenges: the protection of its intellectual property, increasing political demands at home to contribute much more substantially to the economy of South Africa, and the worsening skills shortage in its core operations. Instead of claiming transformation by counting how many black directors sit on its board, or how many discounted shares it has sold to the so-called strategic investors, Sasol will have to contribute to the transformation agenda of South Africa. Tshilidzi Marwala, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA