Word: hiscox
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...terrorists. Unlike in, say, Iraq, Somali pirates appear to have little interest in killing hostages who are seized along with vessels, and the crews are usually released with the ships when the ransoms are paid. "Paying ransoms is not illegal," says Guillaume Bonnissent, a special risks underwriter for Hiscox Insurance Co. Ltd. in London, which writes about two-thirds of the world's kidnap-and-ransom insurance policies, known in the industry as K&R. In fact, insurance companies never pay ransoms themselves, in part because insurance companies are often banned by law from doing so. Instead, the companies whose...
...Joined by two actors in the film, Michael Peña and Andrew Garfield, Redford imparted both his intentions in making the movie and his view of the current political situation in a discussion moderated by Stephen Rosen, the Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs, and Michael Hiscox of the Government Department...
Hemel’s intellectual rigor has not let up since coming to Harvard, according to Professor of Government Michael J. Hiscox...
...combines raw intellectual horsepower and inventiveness with a remarkable work ethic, and he is not afraid to challenge established arguments and ideas, inside and outside the classroom,” Hiscox, Hemel’s thesis advisor and one-time professor, wrote in an e-mail...
...know they’re on the steering committee or that there is even a steering committee. For all practical purposes, Anya Bernstein (the Dean of Undergraduate Studies) is the face of Social Studies. If you’re lucky, you’ll come across Professors Michael Hiscox, Steven Levitsky, and Peter Gordon, who’ll all single-handedly make Social Studies worth your time and sweat. Did we mention that Social Studies cannot have its own tenured faculty since it is not a department but a committee? If you have any hopes that Social Studies will ever...