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Olivia Mitchell, chair of the Insurance and Risk Management Department at the Wharton School of business, agrees. "I wouldn't say we'll put any of the modelers or mathematicians out of a job," she says, but still, "every time there's a shift in the landscape, we realize we have to enrich the models, make them more complete, more complex, and bring in some of the richness that the real world can throw at us." Indeed, on Sept. 16, at the request of students, Wharton faculty held a "teach-in" to examine the current financial crisis in the wider...
...owned and managed properties in suburban Seattle through his Westwood Management since 1975, is waiting to opt out of his Section 8 contract when it expires because of what he says is unfair treatment from HUD. "We sign a contract to provide housing for people who otherwise wouldn't be housed by the private sector," he says. "HUD's job is to pay us for doing it, but they are consistently late on their payments." Costs and maintenance increases, furthermore, are not being met by HUD's formula, which Chaussee says is way behind market rate. He is now involved...
Named after the Russian-born novelist who celebrated in her writings the risk-taking individual (and put the black hat on a snivelling, forgiving government that wouldn't let mediocre enterprises and their leaders fail), the center is a lonely beacon of small government and private enterprise in Washington at a time when big government appears to be on the comeback. Black-and-white photos of the controversial writer sit on desktops here; her many novels fill most of the bookshelves; in one office, a blowup of her postage-stamp image (something Rand probably would have abhorred -government embrace...
...feel about your brother Stephen's conversion to Evangelical Christianity? -Nicolas Christy, Austin, TexasIf it wasn't political, I probably wouldn't have anything to say. But the Evangelicals who say AIDS is payback for homosexuals-you don't see liberals saying Hurricane Ike is payback for the Bush family living in Texas. I think that my brother really is very devout and very dedicated, and none of that bothers me until it becomes political...
...compelling, mainly because the ongoing story of Charlie's search for justice is so isolated from the rest of the show that it seems meant for bathroom and snack breaks. Life could disappear for five years, and I'd probably enjoy it just as much again. But I wouldn't spend a minute of those five years thinking about...