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...Return of History and the End of Dreams. Like Fukuyama, Kagan served in the U.S. State Department (as a speech writer for Secretary of State George Shultz); he now lives in Brussels and is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Best known for the 2003 success Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order, Kagan recently made news as a major influence behind John McCain's most ambitious foreign-policy address to date, delivered in late March in Los Angeles. It would be a mistake, however, to dismiss him as a mouthpiece...
...Success in these races weighs heavily in earning a berth to the NCAA Championship, making this a centerpiece of the spring season...
...boat that had found its greatest success in its final sprint—the Crimson varsity snatched wins over Princeton and Northeastern by overtaking both boats in the final 20 strokes of the race during the dual season—came up just short when it mattered most...
...will never have the perfect model of risk.” Amidst a paradigm-shifting financial crisis originated at the core of financial markets, Greenspan felt the need to remind the audience of the FT that despite the amazing complexity of existing models and their relative success for many years, the very fact that they are an abstraction of reality makes it impossible for them to flawlessly predict where the market will go tomorrow. They will perhaps work as they claim, but there is a chance–if small–that they will not. And it all comes...
...Chicagoans are still on edge. Their mayor, Richard M. Daley, has led a dazzling economic and cultural renaissance during his nearly 20-year rule. Yet, for all Daley's success, his police department remains a blemish on his legacy. Weis was named to the job in November, following the resignation of the last superintendent, Philip Cline, in April 2007, amid a series of department scandals. They included an apparently drunken off-duty officer who was videotaped beating a female bartender. In September, federal authorities charged a member of the department's elite special operations unit with planning a colleague...