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...joke that someone should open a special trauma ward in Washington for people who've worked for Rahm." - Jose Cerda, former Clinton staffer, on the notoriously enormous demands that Emanuel puts on his staff (Rolling Stone...
Sage advice, that. But for how long will it be followed? "Risk gets forgotten in all bubbles," says Peter Bernstein, an investment adviser and the author of Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. "We've been down this particular road before." Indeed, we have. After every other trauma--the 1987 stock-market crash, the savings-and-loan crisis, the meltdown of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund--boisterous, unchecked risk-taking eventually rushed back in. "In times like this, people do listen to risk managers," says John Hull, professor of derivatives and risk management at the University...
...agriculture. A Humane Society-backed proposition to require more humane treatment of farm animals is before California voters on Election Day. TIME talked to Wayne Pacelle, the group's president, about his differences with PETA, why everyone doesn't have to go vegetarian (at least not yet), and the trauma of being an undercover slaughter house investigator...
...hell," Stark did what she does best: research. She spent months on the Internet reading about long-term marriages, what makes them work, what makes them turn sour and fall apart. She came up with a name for what she was going through, Wife Abandonment Syndrome - the pain and trauma of being left, after a lengthy and outwardly happy marriage. In November, Stark will launch a once-a-week online workshop and group-therapy session called Bouncing Back Better for women like her. Stark says, "I thought, if I'm suffering this much" - she, a therapist specializing in family...
...Poverty plus celebrity plus race plus bad choices plus crime add up to ... What? Should we compare the media coverage of the Hudsons unfavorably with that of white victims like JonBenét Ramsey and Chandra Levy? Must it take an Academy Award to make one family's trauma stand out against a drumbeat of urban crime...