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...ever. But there has been an insurer there, Lloyd's, since 1771. And because it's an outfit that historically insured ships, weather is never too far from its mind. Last year Hurricane Katrina turned heads at Lloyd's. The storm didn't just flood New Orleans; it also swept away the insurance industry's trust in its catastrophe modeling, the tool it depends on to evaluate bad-weather risk. The model assumed that a hurricane like Katrina couldn't happen in the same year as two other superstorms. Nor did it envision the off-the-scale damage caused...
...Enter Blair, who had been swept into 10 Downing Street in a landslide a few months before. Incorrigibly cheerful and gently manipulative, he keeps telling the Queen that a condoling word or two might be in order. Only then does she realize with a shock that she was not the most beloved woman in Britain. Blair has to slap the royals awake to recognize the intensity of the nation's grief and Elizabeth's need to display some herself. Blair, who has a mother about the Queen's age, becomes the son Elizabeth never had: the one she listens...
...monarchy is completely discredited. Holding things together is consumerism. It imposes the only values we have." Ballard's values were shaped by Shanghai. "It was an enormous influence on me," he says of his three years in Japanese custody. "After Pearl Harbor, my secure and settled life was just swept away. It taught me that conventional reality can't be trusted, that human beings are not always governed by reason. They can be very cruel." Ballard's wife, Mary, died of pneumonia in 1964, leaving him to raise their three children alone. For nearly 40 years...
...Bush Administration. And the fact that its deliberations on Iraq policy will include high-level meetings with officials from both Iran and Syria suggests that the group may have recognized that stabilizing Iraq will require agreements with some of the regimes the President had hoped would be swept away in his "new Middle East...
...little disheartened, but certainly a lot smarter. “It was a great learning experience for our team,” senior Sarah Cebron said. “We definitely improved as the weekend went on.” On Friday night, the Crimson (2-4) was swept by eventual tournament champion Cal State Northridge before twice falling in three straight on Saturday to tournament host San Jose State and Utah Valley State. Junior co-captain Suzie Trimble was named to the All-Tournament team, finishing the weekend with 22 kills. Harvard will continue its preseason tomorrow...