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...Western observers describe a kind of pyramid scheme of corruption that goes to the top of the Afghan government. "It's like a feudal system," says Captain David Panian, a U.S. reservist now training Afghan Police in Western Afghanistan. "The baron pays the count, the count pays the duke, the duke pays the king. So if you are Joe Chief of Bala Beluk, in order to maintain your job you have to give X amount to the provincial guy, and he has got to give it to the regional...
...memorable scenes and an over-the-top ending, the process of getting there is tedious. Ian (Josh Zuckerman) is an angsty teen in love with his good friend Felicia (Amanda Crew), who has no idea that Ian wants to be more than just friends. His best friend Lance (Clark Duke), who looks like a paisley-clad Clay Aiken, is an implausible Don Juan figure. In a world where everyone is getting action except Ian—from his 14-year-old younger brother to his dad—Ian feels pressure to lose his virginity and rid himself...
...Harvard’s highest administrative positions. Shore previously served as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he worked with clients in the fields of higher education, technology, and consumer products. He had also been a corporate lawyer at the Boston-based firm Nutter, McClennen & Fish, LLP. Shore attended Duke as an undergraduate, where he studied psychology and political science. He also has a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Virginia. In his time at Harvard, Shore has worked on improving the University’s budgeting process, and on implementing planning...
...poisoning bank balance sheets. The thinking has been that once financial institutions can unload this trash on the government, the gears of commerce will move again. But that takes time to pull off. "It's an inefficient way to inject capital," says Campbell Harvey, professor of international business at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. And it also has risk. "You are potentially injecting capital by buying assets from institutions that don't deserve...
...Indeed, at that time, Orleans was right. Duke was an abysmal 0-12 in 2006, Northwestern went 4-8, and Stanford finished 1-11. But with the slow redistribution of talent taking place in college football, those teams appear to be on the rise; Stanford is 3-3 this year and upset No. 1 Southern California last season, Northwestern is 5-0 and ranked No. 22 in the nation, and Duke is 3-2. Vanderbilt, another highly regarded academic institution, is 5-0 and ranked No. 13 in the nation despite playing in what is regarded as the most difficult...