Word: needlessly
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...Needless to say, those numbers traders seem to play with on their many computer screens every day from dawn to dusk are hard to conceive of as tangible funds. In his overwhelming desire to achieve upward social mobility, Kerviel forgot that it was real money – and that the more zeros, the more they matter. Rather than a “victim” of the system, he represents the system’s worst nightmare: uncalculated risk...
Americans put themselves at needless risk of disease by failing to get key vaccinations as adults, according to a survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The survey also suggests the top reason that adults avoid vaccines: They don't even know they exist...
...Germans, but by local Poles. Fear, published in English in 2006 but first released in Polish just two weeks ago, takes a wider look at post-war anti-Semitism in Poland, investigating why Jews returning to their homes having survived Nazi atrocities were terrorized and sometimes murdered by Poles. Needless to say, it is not a topic with which Poland has been comfortable in dealing...
...recruiting job at Michigan wasn’t all that great, but that’s only a superficial understanding: recruiting isn’t a process that occurs in a vacuum.Who were Amaker’s old recruits playing for last Saturday night? Not Amaker, but John Beilein. Needless to say, Beilein and Amaker have different styles, different nuances and, frankly, they’re different people. The fact that Amaker and Harvard beat his old recruits speaks not to the fact that Amaker wasn’t or isn’t a good recruiter, but it speaks...
...where confused identity is the norm. “I’m Not There,” written and directed by Todd Haynes (“Far From Heaven”), is a brilliantly fresh film about the legendary life and music of Bob Dylan, complete with, needless to say, an amazing soundtrack. Six actors—Marcus Carl Franklin, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere, and Ben Whishaw—play fictional characters that represent different epochs of Dylan’s life. Tellingly, none of them actually share Dylan’s name...