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...Airborne One, I do not wish to incur your wrath," the angel stammered, "but I feel that you have been too harsh on the Crimson...
...reasonable to argue that a student who makes tack holes in a wooden slat or uses tape on a painted wall is contributing to an eventual need for repair, and thus should incur an appropriate charge. But this charge shouldn't be 20 dollars per tack. The sums my dormmates have to pay for their sins grossly exceed the amount of damage done...
Campeau Corp. disclosed the extent of its financial woes in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing last week. The company said Allied and Federated would incur net losses for the next five years. The report added that even if Campeau liquidated all its Allied and Federated stores, it could not raise enough cash to pay off its total debts. Meanwhile, efforts to sell Bloomingdale's have been disappointing. Campeau hoped to get about $1.5 billion for the 17-store subsidiary when it went on the block last September, but experts say it may fetch less than $1 billion. The most...
Maybe it's a jinx. There must be some reason the lowly Elis are 8-1-2 at home against the Crimson since the Bicentennial. Some Harvard-affiliated person somewhere must have said or done something really horrible to incur the wrath of the Connecticut sports gods. Home ice advantage is one thing, but the Elis have owned the Crimson...
Experts on risk perception generally agree that people tend to be less concerned about dangers they incur voluntarily, like cigarette smoking and fast driving. They are more resentful of risks they feel have been imposed upon them, like the threat of mishaps at a nearby nuclear plant. They are more sensitive to risks they can control -- for instance, through laws that ban pesticides or require safety warnings -- than they are to those they feel they can do nothing about -- like acts of nature. "People choose what to fear," says Aaron Wildavsky, co-author of Risk and Culture. "What...