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...Schapiro's financial self-regulation background may not be enough. According to Dr. Fred Dunbar, senior vice president at NERA, an economic consulting firm, "banks are suppose to behave themselves under self-rule." During the Bush Administration this popular belief drifted over to the SEC, Dunbar says. "The feeling was, with the SEC, that with such self-enforcement they wouldn't have to step up their own enforcement. But the financial crisis has led to a re-examination of this theory, firms don't behave as one might think in theory...
...always been satisfied and encouraged at how he has addressed and responded to our concerns as students,” said Sean M. Dunbar, president of the School of Public Health’s student government...
...year began testing all 23,000 first-graders using a culture-neutral, language-free assessment that requires no reading, writing or speaking. The result? The number of first-graders screened for gifted placement shot up from some 100 the previous year to nearly 3,000. Says deputy superintendent Antoinette Dunbar of the decision to start testing every first-grader for giftedness: "Sometimes we overlook the very obvious...
...would make the argument, yes, that it is. Robin Dunbar wrote the book Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, about how important it was in human evolution to be able to increase group size beyond small bands of related people, important for defense. That defense was originally against predatory animals, then a growing need to defend against other primates and finally against other humans. That may well have selected for humans who had these skills and talents. Evolutionary biologists always beat their heads up against these things. Why do people do things like music? Why do they dance? These...
...opened a window into the lives of upwardly mobile blacks; of brain cancer; in Los Angeles. Literature left an early mark on Campbell. Her mother believed memorization was key to education, and pushed her to commit to memory passages ranging from Psalm 23 to Shakespeare to Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry. Education remained a theme in Campbell's life. She taught elementary school for five years before turning fully to writing but never truly left her earlier profession. Her lyrical works were laden with of-the-moment social lessons--1994's Brothers and Sisters explored racial tension in post-- Rodney...