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...climate crisis. Moral suasion of the sort exemplified by frontline activism is needed too, as Gore noted. "It'd be more powerful if he put his body where his mouth is," says Abigail Singer, a Rising Tide activist. In other words, there will always be room on the human chain...
...them up and sell the pieces as fairly safe securities, even as they were leveraged to the hilt. Why? The mathematical models--backward-looking and based on just a few years' data from an asset bubble--said so. "As an industry, we let financial tools be a substitute for human judgment," says Kevin Blakely, CEO of the trade group Risk Management Association. "There's been such an earthquake in the industry, people are saying we have to do it differently...
...risk morphs from a slop trough of moneymaking into a business line like any other, one that requires human beings to ask the big-picture questions that computer models don't, like, What would happen if fundamental assumptions--house prices go up, institutions are too big to fail--prove to be wrong...
...head coach, I don’t think we’ve ever had a kid who was such a tremendous player, was as scholarly and gave back more to the community,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy says. “Andrew’s an amazing human being, starting with his character, and he gives us the kind of understated leadership that is so special.”Berry has notched 95 tackles and four interceptions during his career. His presence in the secondary is so dominant that teams no longer throw in his direction...
...Steven T. Cupps ’09, a Crimson editorial writer, is a human evolutionary biology concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...