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...market in 2006. Mittelman and Samuels specialize in arbitrage—investing when they noticed temporary gaps in price relationships and then profiting when the prices reconverged. “The fixed income markets just haven’t been volatile, and that’s what they thrive on,” said Howard Kapiloff, Managing Editor of Hedge Fund Alert, a weekly publication that reported on Convexity’s shortcomings in early January. Meyer declined to comment for this story. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...undermining the authority of U.S. allies. Anti-U.S. regimes in Iran and North Korea have accelerated their pursuit of atomic arsenals. In Africa, genocide, poverty and disease threaten the survival of millions. And in the shadows lurks the danger of al-Qaeda and its jihadist kin, who thrive on the very dislocation the U.S.'s war on terrorism was supposed to combat...
...details were puzzling. Why would Sunni insurgents, who generally favor stand-off tactics like suicide bombings, mortar attacks and roadside bombs, make a target of themselves by massing hundreds of fighters deep in the Shi'a heartland? Why would Shi'a militias, which thrive on the support of the towns and neighborhoods from which they spring, stake a claim to a patch of farmland outside Najaf...
...Rome, the world has a Greek Catholic Church, a Russian Catholic Church and an English Catholic Church. The time is ripe for an American Catholic Church. The U.S. bishops should begin now to circumvent the archaisms of Rome and formulate a relevant church in which all American Catholics can thrive in their religious lives. Emily Langford Bennett Princeton...
...Achievement Center, located at a local college, for kids who have fallen behind and would be older than their classmates. Shawn wasn't one of the 30 students enrolled at the center, but reaching out to older kids who for a variety of social and academic reasons don't thrive in high schools is a crucial first step in lowering the dropout rate...