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...challenges facing the College.” But in multiple interviews with The Crimson over the last month, the Dean’s colleagues in University Hall say that she, like them, never anticipated the slew of obstacles to face the College administration this year: an unprecedented budget crisis, uncertain House Renewal, and traumatic events in the student population, including four undergraduate deaths and a shooting in Kirkland House last month...
...Since budgets are still uncertain, most Masters remained hopeful that changes to House life would be minimal and said they would oppose implementing a 25-percent budget cut if that were to become a formal mandate. Losing a quarter of House funds would “drastically affect daily life in practice,” Pertile says...
...would change economic parameters so that the original assumptions are no longer valid.“Unlike in the physical sciences, where with enough data you can learn what the truth is, in markets the truth is moving around a little bit,” Stein says.In a fundamentally uncertain world, placing too much faith in predictions, no matter how sophisticated, can be a mistake.“[People] think of us as having much better forecasting skills than we really do have,” Merton says.HUMAN ERRORQuantitative techniques may have generated inaccurate predictions, but the final responsibility...
...months of leave.“When I [told my parents] I was quitting my I-banking job, there was a pregnant pause at the other end of the line,” Brown said. Her parents were initially skeptical about her decision to enter the uncertain world of the music industry, but in 1987, Brown received an offer she could not refuse. Alison Krauss, who had just released her first solo album as a bluegrass singer and fiddler, invited Brown to join her on a tour with the Union Station band as their banjo player. Brown toured with...
...While his statement calls for "vigorous (yet peaceful) actions," his logic leads elsewhere. This is where President Obama's call for "common ground" collides with the reality of the issue. Some people are uncertain enough about the issue to be open to competing arguments and the weighing of moral claims. But some people are in no doubt about what they think. There will always be people on the left who dislike talk of abortion as a "tragedy" or support for restrictions on it, on the grounds that a woman facing an unintended pregnancy has enough challenges without navigating a moral...