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...Harvard community and the world of science have lost a brilliant scholar whose research helped redefine our notion of who we are and where we came from. He was also a gifted teacher who brought important scientific ideas vividly to life for his students and for the wider public,” Summers said. “We will miss him greatly, and we will continue to learn from his work for generations to come...
...bard of capitalism would scarcely recognize what California created as a "free market." The rules remained complex and rife with perverse incentives. The benefits to be gained from the system--taking advantage of its loopholes and stretching them wider--are all too obvious. Mike Aguirre, a San Diego lawyer who specializes in fraud and is representing California in one of its suits against Enron, took an energy-trading course in Houston last year in an enterprising bid to understand what the other side was being taught. There he learned Megawatt Laundering, or how to sell California its own electricity...
...news is that investors have shown they are willing to overlook the bad climate when specific company fundamentals improve. Last week tech giant Cisco reported a quarterly profit that was 1[cent] a share better than expected--and the market soared for a day. Especially encouraging were Cisco's wider profit margin and depleted inventory. But it will take a drumbeat of such news to turn around negative market psychology...
...intimately familiar with the local terrain. For both sides, Jenin has been added to the memories that invest the conflict in the Middle East with such bitterness. Because Jenin has become so potent a symbol, a new battle has broken out over what precisely happened there and what its wider significance will...
...downside to turning to the media for finding one's spiritual satisfaction, it may be the risk of creating a sense of isolation. "It's positive that youth are searching for something in their lives, but if the search is done alone, it separates kids from a wider religious community. One beautiful aspect of religion is that you become part of a religious family...