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...asset markets). But a data-driven, formal approach to making policy decisions is quite frankly the best we can do and therefore essential. “Embracing uncertainty” and abandoning mathematical models, while assuming that human behavior isn’t even “remotely predictable?? is wrong-headed...
...familiar territory, both lyrically and musically.The album kicks off with the two songs which stick closest of all to their formula. A pulsating bassline and whining, mesmeric synths propel the album’s first single “Uprising.” It’s all fairly predictable??especially the chorus, in which Matt Bellamy decries with typical fist-pumping authority: “They will not force us / They will stop degrading us / They will not control us / We will be victorious.” Track two, “Resistance,” starts...
...says Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio). And who wouldn’t be, after 10 years in Congress and two presidential campaigns? Speaking last Friday as part of the Harvard College Democrats’ Conversations with the Candidates series, Kucinich answered questions ranging from the predictable??Iraq?—to the personal: What will Kucinich do if he fails again to win the Democratic nomination? “Kucinich [has] more experience so he seems less afraid of taking strong stances,” says James E. Goldschmidt ’09, who attended the event...
...year ago the College announced that student groups would be evicted from the Yard and packed off to Hilles, then enacted a whistle-stop mockery of soliciting student input by asking how we wanted our new Hilles offices laid out. The center’s ghost-town emptiness was predictable??and predicted, in a firestorm of student criticism...
...Jeff Stein published an excellent piece in The New York Times relating his troubling experience asking every government employee he could—FBI agents, congressmen, and State Department employees alike—if they understood the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite. The results are dismaying, if predictable??few of the officials who should know the differences actually do. If we had our druthers, every Harvard graduate and civil servant would have understood immediately the importance of the bombing of the al-Askari shrine this past February in the Iraqi city of Samarra. Who could have...