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...Insurance and Risk Management Department at the Wharton School of business, agrees. "I wouldn't say we'll put any of the modelers or mathematicians out of a job," she says, but still, "every time there's a shift in the landscape, we realize we have to enrich the models, make them more complete, more complex, and bring in some of the richness that the real world can throw at us." Indeed, on Sept. 16, at the request of students, Wharton faculty held a "teach-in" to examine the current financial crisis in the wider context of risk management, among...
...uncommon for criminals to bribe their way out of prison in Afghanistan. But in the north, where warlords still command private militias and enrich their armies by running lucrative smuggling routes, impunity is rife. Police often refuse to register cases against well-known criminals, for fear of retaliation and more often because they are on the take. When Amruddin's 13-year-old daughter was kidnapped in Sar-i-pul province last year, he had to pay for the local police officer's fuel in order to get the officer to visit the café where she had last been...
...believe there's an entrenched culture of corruption within Zanu-PF - so that's what they want to hang on to is these opportunities to enrich themselves? It's the lifestyle, it's the patronage system of Mugabe that has cushioned them from the economic difficulties that everyone else is exposed...
...neat trick, turning discipline into ecstasy, and Coldplay executes it with enough variations to keep things surprising. Strings pop up everywhere--not to grease your tear ducts but to enrich the sound and drive the countermelodies. After years of playing to the back row, guitarist Jonny Buckland has discovered that guitars come with more than one pedal, and his work on Lovers in Japan and Violet Hill is admirably precise. Will Champion, whose previous claim to fame was having the greatest drummer name of all time, bangs away on his kettles and timpani like a man celebrating his release from...
...praising Hizballah. Despite the tough talk that was welcomed by some of the legislators with shouts of "God is great!" and "Death to America!" Larijani received a congratulatory call from European Union Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana - an old negotiating partner. While Iran's insistence on its right to enrich uranium unites all major factions in the country, Larijani represents a more pragmatic approach to handling the issue, aimed at finding agreement with the West and avoiding confrontation...