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...there is also reason to be skeptical. Take, for instance, the idea of risk-adjusted employee pay as a way to keep people, including rank-and-file traders, from following personal incentives to the exclusion of a company's broader interest. It is a compelling idea. But so far it hasn't happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reassessing Risk | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...sunshine, Harry E. Brown made his way with a walnut cane along a Kansas City, Mo., boulevard, carrying the heavy metal folding chair that had helped him through a two-hour wait to cast his ballot. He had a mile and a half still ahead of him. "The only reason I'd walk this far," Brown said, was for Barack Obama. "It's not because of the color of his skin--it's because of the change he will bring to America." Back when King was dreaming a father's dreams for his children, Brown lived in Mississippi. "I rode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moment | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Well, that’s where we commissioned the forty thousand pounds. I mean, it’s local. (Laughs) I can imagine people are beginning to get tired of it. Everybody thinks that’s all we’re serving. But there’s good reason behind it.*[Editor’s note: For readers with unrefined palettes, that’s the long-shaped one with a cream and green striped skin.]4. FM: Speaking of the daily menu, what goes into planning Harvard dining hall fare?TAM: Well, in the House system, the daily...

Author: By Stephanie M Bucklin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Ted A. Mayer | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...order to take higher-level biostatistics courses, students would need to build a solid foundation of basic theory and methods that only a traditional textbook-based course would provide, Testa said. For this reason, the faculty recommends that those pursuing doctoral degrees or hoping for positions in academia study under the more traditional curriculum...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard School of Public Health Overhauls Curriculum | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Despite the apparent absurdity of the law, there is actually a good reason for putting stormwater control financing in the highest law of the state: It was already in the constitution to begin with. This effectively meant that any change in stormwater control financing policy required a constitutional amendment. Obviously, the lesson to take away from this is not to insert inane, arbitrary provisions into a state’s constitution. Inane, arbitrary provisions like Constitutional Amendment 1, making English Missouri’s official government language, which passed on Tuesday with 86.3 percent of the vote. Sigh...

Author: By Steven T. Cupps | Title: Si Se Puede? | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

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