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...valuing different lives differently--the first part of the equation--the fund follows common legal practice. Courts always grant money on the basis of a person's earning power in life. That's because the courts are not attempting to replace "souls," says Philip Bobbitt, a law professor at the University of Texas who has written about the allocation of scarce resources in times of tragedy. "We're not trying to make you psychologically whole. Where we can calculate the loss is in economic loss." The Feinberg plan differs from legal norms in deducting the value of life insurance...
...system developed by the Dallas-based company Teleportec. That system allows video of a participant to be reflected onto a transparent screen to simulate a 3-D image that makes it seem as if the person is in the room. It's an optical illusion, says vice president Philip Barnett, but many who see the images forget that. He still chuckles at the memory of the executive who tried to hand a document to the colleague who was being "teleported...
...valuing different lives differently - the first part of the equation - the fund follows common legal practice. Courts always grant money on the basis of a person's earning power in life. That's because the courts are not attempting to replace "souls," says Philip Bobbitt, a law professor at the University of Texas who has written about the allocation of scarce resources in times of tragedy. "We're not trying to make you psychologically whole. Where we can calculate the loss is in economic loss." The Feinberg plan differs from legal norms in deducting the value of life insurance...
TIME: At the last Winter Games, [Kenyan cross-country skier] Philip Boit got all the attention. Now it's you. Menyoli: He's still there. He's doing well. He's now like a veteran and nobody wants to talk to him anymore. If I go to Turin [for the Winter Games in 2006], they won't want to talk to me. they'll want to talk to the next...
This leaves aside, too, the ambitious sociopaths who aren’t actually accepted to Harvard, but find their way here anyway—like Ed Meinert “’02” and Philip Shaw “’03”, both of whom recently posed as undergrads, joined campus organizations, and tried to rush the Sigma Chi fraternity. These less-ambitious versions of Suzanne Pomeys may have not been Harvard men in name, but they were in spirit, proving that even a rejection letter doesn’t always dampen the Darwinian...