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James Joyce: 140 characters? A sentence of such fractured length would have barely begun to scratch at the surface of man's vain, insignificant - James Joyce: Damn...
...quantitative forecasting, they say that the fundamentals of quantitative techniques remain intact.But at the same time, there is a new note of humility—an explicit recognition that the world is complex, formulas are imperfect, and humans are fallible.THE GREAT UNKNOWNWhile debates continue to rage over the length, severity, or causes of the financial crisis, economists have agreed on one of its effects: a renewed caution about the predictive powers of mathematics.Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton says that finance, unlike other subfields of economics, had never claimed to forecast the exact movements of securities prices.Merton...
...projected to amount to $5 million, architects relied on cost-cutting “skip-stop” planning.Consequently, Quincy House blueprints eliminated the entryway system, bell towers, and multitude of fireplaces that marked the older Houses. Instead, architects opted to have a more economical single corridor run the length of the building. “We were able to get past the fact that it had zero charm because it had all the modern amenities of 1959,” said Bertram E. Busch ’62, noting Quincy’s non-descript, linoleum looking tile floor...
Even before deregulation, Europe's rail industry has been modernizing and expanding. France, which has Europe's largest high-speed rail network, plans to more than double its track length from 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to 2,500 miles (4,000 km) by 2020. Spain is aiming to leapfrog France as high-speed leader with a $130 billion expansion; when completed in 2020, 90% of all Spaniards will live no more than 31 miles (50 km) from a station served by Alta Velocidad Española (AVE) trains, which have a top speed of 218 m.p.h. (351 km/h...
...John Roberts timetable" - there were 74 days from the day the Chief Justice was nominated to his swearing-in. For Sotomayor, the equivalent date would be Aug. 6, but Kevin McLaughlin, a spokesman for Cornyn's office, now says that date might not give Republicans enough time. "Given the length and breadth of her record, we're not sure it's possible to meet that deadline," he says...