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...other hand, says Peter Morici, a professor of international business at the University of Maryland, finance concentrators - that is, the students who are specially trained to grasp the models - are so steeped in the particulars that they don't always see the forest for the trees. They get the math, but they don't pay attention to systemic issues within the broader economy; it's a by-product of degree programs that encourage students to take a narrow focus too early on in their studies. "In medicine you become a doctor first, and then you become a specialist," Morici says...
...wild man image, as you put it, of the Saracen with the sword in one hand and the Koran in the other...
...Which, by the way, is not only absurd but also impossible - unless you were going to assume a race of left-handed swordsman. No self-respecting Muslim would carry the Koran in the left hand, which is traditionally reserved for unclean purposes...
...world. There seems to be some discussion of how to address and redress that. We should have no illusions. It is a very real danger that could be a mortal threat to our whole civilization, to our way of life. It comes in two varieties. On the one hand you have the al-Qaeda type. On the other hand you have the Iranian type sponsored by the Iranian government. Both of these have global aspirations. Both of them have a sort of apocalyptic mind-sets. Both feel that now is the end of time and that the final struggle...
...hand there are patriotic Iranians who feel offended and insulted when people attack their country. On the other hand there are many Iranians, probably a majority of Iranians, who feel outraged by the present leaders of their country, who feel they are dishonoring the good name of Iran, as many Germans felt about the Nazis...