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...most recent rankings, Morgan Quitno Press analyzed 2005 crime rate statistics in six basic categories—murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft??according to the president of the firm, Scott Morgan. Each type of crime was weighed equally in the final analysis. The statistics are from the F.B.I.’s annual Uniform Crime Report...
...writing to second Charles Drummond’s tolerant perspective on the controversy surrounding sophomore novelist Kaavya Viswanathan (“Girl Interrupted,” comment, Apr. 26). If a few plot points and a borrowed phrase every 10 pages constitute “literary identity theft??, as Tuesday’s statement from Random House alleges, few authors will escape whipping. With Chaucer and Boccaccio, Shakespeare and Holinshead, Robert Johnson and Skip James, why not Viswanathan and McCafferty? Any literary omelet worth its salt is likely to contain a few borrowed eggs...
...rapacious governments that are only too keen to make you pay for their mistakes. One typical experience this summer had me constructing a financial model to price an oilfield with a $200 million liability for legacy pollution. The variable in the model that covered this was “theft??yes/no.” Simply put, several hours of modeling a number of oil fields, their refineries, transport assets and the like came down to one question: Is the government going to screw us at the first available opportunity? This country’s attractiveness to investors hinged...