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Martha L. Minow became dean of the Law School on July 1, 2009, at a time when the institution—rocked by financial uncertainty??was left with an unfinished multi-million dollar construction project at the Northwest Corner and a shaken faculty concerned for the school’s future...
...crisis, there were plenty of critics of the efficient market hypothesis who were using data and simulation to predict pathological behavior in asset markets). But a data-driven, formal approach to making policy decisions is quite frankly the best we can do and therefore essential. “Embracing uncertainty?? and abandoning mathematical models, while assuming that human behavior isn’t even “remotely predictable” is wrong-headed...
...intellectually dishonest” culture in Washington, which she said was exemplified by the recent passage of the health care bill. The problems with the bill, according to Ayotte, include the intrusion of the federal government into state and individual interests and the “climate of uncertainty?? it has created for businesses...
...play is an admirable attempt to integrate science and literature, but it quickly descends into an endless pun about uncertainty??as in Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle—which the play itself never quite cognizes. The work suffers from an overabundance of mere observations of the ways human behavior can correspond with anthropomorphic interpretations of QM. This method is inherently problematic; the physics can really only tell us the outcomes of experiments concerning the quantum world. At best it allows room to imagine what subatomic particles do, but that has nothing to do with what humans...
...total lack of suspense. Imminent danger is signaled by the scraping of the murderer’s weapon (a tire iron) against a wall. Suspenseful music, by contrast, delivers no thrilling action, and thus becomes such a frustrating aspect of the movie that by the end there is no uncertainty??however fleeting—of what comes next. Both “Sorority Row” and Theta Pi eventually go down in flames. In the theatre, the film’s end produced an astounding round of applause, either for the film being over...