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...currently focus heavily on mathematical modeling (a forecasting technique that uses historical data and assumptions). "People shouldn't bury themselves in the mathematics, because the mathematics are only tools," says Kenneth Froot, a professor at Harvard Business School who teaches courses in risk management. "One needs to have a wide and robust vocabulary to talk about risk, simply because no single mathematical formula is going to capture all of what risk...
...emotion. Over syncopated drums and her own rhythmic guitar playing, Wainwright’s voice, by no means rich or soothing, is like a mezzo-soprano Lucinda Williams. She achingly describes how “there are days when the cage doesn’t seem to open very wide at all,” referring to her own debilitating obsession with a man that has “love in his heart” for his own wife and daughter. However, as the music swells to production levels more typical of Rilo Kiley than Williams—bringing...
...because of the time I spent there that I noticed more acutely the way in which Welty’s stories unfold in such specific landscapes. I had always loved her characters, but they can only exist near places like the Pearl River of “The Wide Net.” The story’s protagonist is searching the river for the body of his wife, who may or may not have drowned herself. Despite the gravity of the main character’s situation, he remains placid, just like the river Welty describes...
With a talented and wealthy crop of students leaving the public school system every year for greener pastures, it’s become far too easy to simply label that system “broken” and follow suit. Renewed community-wide participation in state education would be accompanied by a sense of urgency to fix that system’s myriad problems. Of course there is a place in the world for private schools; it’s simply important, in the name of equal opportunity, to ensure that the discrepancy between them and their public counterparts should...
...Casey Hart, the assistant director of athletic communications, did not specify the possible consequences from the incident. “We don’t have a set department-wide policy on dealing with those things beyond what the University does,” he said. “The decisions are made on a case-by-case basis...