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...motivation for these projects comes from innovative humanitarian enterprises that she reads about online. This summer, she started collecting these ideas in a journal. Inside the front cover, she has inscribed her guiding mantra: “What would you do if you knew you could not fail...
Each year, UC candidates flock to the largest political and cultural organizations on campus in an attempt to lock up the votes of their members, but UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10 said that based on her campaign experience, this strategy may fail to produce the expected results...
...Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, have published several papers over the past year arguing that the CERN experiment may be the latest in a series of physics research projects whose purposes are so unacceptable to the universe that they are doomed to fail, subverted by the future. (See pictures of the Large Hadron Particle Collider...
...Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves...
Behind each twist and turn of last year's financial crisis was a small club of (mostly) men--many of them friends, plenty more rivals--who determined, often by the seat of their pants, how events would unfold. In Too Big to Fail, Sorkin, a New York Times reporter, takes us inside the cozy world of Wall Street chieftains and their Washington alter egos. Why did the U.S. Treasury Department ask Congress for $700 billion in bank-bailout funds? Because $500 billion felt too small and $1 trillion politically impossible; one staffer, charged with justifying the figure, laughed...