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...missiles might be emotionally satisfying and politically compelling in Taiwan," says James Mulvenon, an Asia expert at the Rand Corp., "but they are not in the U.S. national interest." Michael A. McDevitt, a retired U.S. Navy admiral who is now with the CNA Corp., a Virginia-based think tank, says the deterrent effect is also questionable: Beijing is unlikely to be cowed if it really wants to invade. Offensive missiles for Taiwan are "really stupid," McDevitt says. That's one analysis the U.S. and China can probably agree...
...temptation to take on more risk is definitely there," says Nancy Everett, chief investment officer of the Virginia Retirement System, which manages $38 billion, and this year boosted its hedge-fund allocation by two-thirds, to 5% of assets. For that reason, she says, "you should keep an eye on what your hedge funds are up to if you have a hedge-fund program...
...believe that the expansion signals a cheapening of Harvard. “I don’t approve of them branching out to the rainbow. This school has a heritage, and that is what separates Harvard from the other ‘Universities’,” says Virginia Fisher ’08. Despite some disapproval, The Coop seems to believe that it’s options, not tradition, that customers want...
...Islands worth some $15.5 million. At the same time, Phoebe had sued citizens in the Dougherty County area, one of the nation's poorest, hundreds of times over a five-year span, making the hospital one of the region's most litigious parties. Phoebe garnished the wages of patient Virginia Franklins, 49, even though she made $7 an hour pressing men's dress shirts and had no house or car to her name. After that, Franklins says, "I couldn't afford to pay my bills." She now lives off welfare, caring for a 13-year-old niece as well...
...BELIEVE IT'S TRUE WHEN: We see the West Virginia lovely...