Word: killinger
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Philip A. Falcone ’84, founder of Harbinger Capital Partners, was crowned the “Midas of Misery” by BusinessWeek after he made a killing by snapping up failing companies and distressed bonds over the course of his financial career.
The changing nature of kinship networks, such as the growth in blended families – whether due to changing divorce patterns in the developed world or AIDS killing off parents in Africa – also has implications for the network of obligations and entitlements within families. Changing kinship...
In a rare moment of rhetorical agreement, organizations from Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation to Operation Rescue and National Right to Life have issued statements condemning the killing of abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. "Justice for all human beings includes the lives of those with whom we fundamentally...
Dr. Tiller, like others before him, represented a challenge to both sides. Late-term abortions have always been the hardest to defend, but he and his supporters would point to cases when the procedure, however morally troubling, was medically necessary. Murder is even harder to defend, and yet there are...
The notion of charting military progress by counting enemy dead was championed by then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who believed in analyzing all sorts of data to determine how the war was going. The emphasis on those numbers led to some commanders' emphasizing killing over winning and to inflated body...