Word: neumanns
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...Peter G. Neumann...
...which would have allowed people to speculate on terrorist strikes, assassinations and coups, was "wasteful and absurd." Poindexter is expected to leave his Pentagon post in the wake of the controversy, but we may not have heard the last of the plan. "The p.r. has been bad," says George Neumann, a University of Iowa economics professor. "But people are going to want to revisit these issues...
...Neumann is a director of the university's political stock market, which has been more accurate than polls in predicting elections. Similar markets have been useful in predicting oil prices and ticket sales. The theory is simple: when people have something at stake, they act on their deepest convictions, which generates the most accurate information. The market is restricted to a few hundred experts with a modest investment limit. Allowing CIA, State Department and Pentagon authorities to wager their own money on a terrorist strike would quickly aggregate their wisdom and perhaps provide leads. Meanwhile, there's collateral damage. Sources...
...soldiers and 12,000 camp followers from Kabul. A week later, the sole survivor of the march, a field surgeon named Brydon, staggered into Jalalabad...The present generation of rebel tribesmen are hardly equipped to repeat such a feat. But, as a former U.S. Ambassador to Kabul, Robert Neumann, has observed, "Foreign invaders have found it easier to march into Afghanistan than to march...
...must learn to be patient instead of arrogantly demanding, forgiving instead of litigious, and cooperative instead of contentious and divisive. It is the hour of course corrections, balance, discernment and wisdom. May we rise to the occasion with a new appreciation of what it costs to be free. TERESA NEUMANN Lebanon...