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...policemen there complain about their pay ($20 for the past month), their lack of firepower and patrol cars, even the look of the new uniforms. "It's like we're schoolboys," says 2nd Lieut. Khalil Kamar Rashid. The U.S. and the residents of Baghdad need them to grow up in a hurry. --By Romesh Ratnesar/Baghdad
Insurance firms, Zuk says, must stabilize the disruptive cycle of cutting rates and then raising them when losses grow too big. Regulators could stop an insurer from underpricing premiums and "protect it from its own stupidity," as Zuk puts it. "The industry has to say, 'Forget investment income. Let's just write to an underwriting profit...
...enter Harvard Yard through Dexter Gate, whose inscription enjoins us to ‘Grow in Wisdom.’ But few seem to notice the invocation as we leave. To our world of individualism, it speaks of solidarity and unity of purpose. It says this: ‘Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind,’” Moulton told his class...
...18th century, as New England flourished and the colonies moved towards independence, Harvard’s curriculum was still heavily rooted in religion but began to grow towards a “gentleman’s education,” a general curriculum augmented by private tutors in French and philosophy...
...Armed harassment by Baathist sympathizers is unlikely to grow into a nationwide insurgency, however, because of the history and demographics of Iraq. The Sunnis, after all, constitute only 15 percent of the total population, and although there are mounting signs of disaffection with the occupation among the Shiite majority, they're also the longest-suffering victims of Baathist tyranny and are unlikely to make common cause with their former tormentors...