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...lost their husbands on Sept. 11.) "You almost feel like you have to do something, but you're not sure," he says. The indeterminacy is frustrating and painful for him, but not--at least outwardly--for Genelle. "I think sometimes: 'Why did I wait on Rosa?'" she says. "I guess the whole thing happened for a reason. It was just their time to go. God calls, and you have to answer. Some of them weren't prepared for him, and that gets to me. I know Rosa, I know she wasn't ready to go. It was just the life...
...clarify. But many people who meet Genelle sense only peace. "My main impression of her is really just how calm she is," says Amsale Aberra, the wedding-gown designer, who got to know Genelle while working with her on a dress for the televised ceremony. "You would never guess what she had been through." And for now, that seems to be just what Genelle Guzman-McMillan wants. The rest of it--the big answers to why she is here--may always lie hidden between...
Second, the actual risk of being a terror victim is not merely small--it is unknown and unknowable. Economists make a distinction between "risk" and "uncertainty." Risk refers to hard mathematical odds. Uncertainty refers to situations in which the odds are anybody's guess...
Fourth, it's hard to be rational about the irrational. Who can guess intelligently what Osama bin Laden might want to try next? How can you discourage a suicide bomber who is looking forward to being dead after killing you? Irrationality holds a treasured place in game theory, the branch of economics dedicated to strategic questions of this sort. Game theory's great insight is that irrationality can be an asset. If you can convince the world that you're nuts--and the surest way to do that is to be nuts--your behavior becomes impossible to predict or control...
...been killing all these men for three years?'" he says. Tony's mistress, he adds, "was a woman who was dating a gangster, who was very unhappy and sick and wanted to be killed. And here she is spitting in his face, threatening to tell his wife, and guess what? He doesn't kill her. I could make the argument that it was unrealistic, that he should have killed her. He's killed people for a lot less...