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...leaving Cambridge to join a VCU coaching staff headed by Shaka Smart, who was named head coach of the program last week. The Rams have made two of the past three NCAA tournaments, scoring a first-round upset over Duke in 2007.“We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents’ psyche and their plan of attack,” Smart promised in the press conference announcing his appointment.Wade and Smart coached together for Clemson during the 2006-07 basketball season, where Wade served as the director of men’s basketball operations...
...mirror trades and dilute profits. Many also view the paperwork and bureaucracy associated with tight regulations as time-consuming and expensive distractions from a funds’ ultimate goal: making money. These objections to oversight, however, ignore the potential damage that unregulated investing and high-risk betting can wreak. Unchecked hedge funds, unregulated derivatives traders, exotic trades, and obscure credit-default swaps all pose threats to the wider stability of the U.S. economy. Additionally, the government’s current inability to safely unwind financial institutions that pose systemic risk presents a gaping hole in federal resolution authority. Unfortunately, behaviors...
...legislature's 275 seats, says it doesn't trust the Shi'ite-led government and wants all of the detainees immediately released, even "the minority" they acknowledge might be al-Qaeda members. "Even if you released an al-Qaeda emir [leader], he won't be able to wreak havoc in the same way he did three years ago," says Omar Almashhadani, a spokesman for the Front, citing improvements in the Iraqi security forces and their intelligence gathering capabilities. "The problem," he adds, "is that some detainees are going to be transferred from a prison that, to a certain degree, respects...
...could explain what motivates the act of mindfucking and what makes certain people particularly vulnerable to it. He could even look at instances of psychological trauma to explore the effects of such disturbing experiences. But he doesn’t. All informed discussion of just how one person can wreak such havoc on the psyche of another is noticeably absent from the book. The author speaks in psychological terms only as a layman; he notes that mindfucking involves “psychological domination” and that “all mindfucking is, at least in part, self-inflicted...
...road. "It's a slippery slope," says David Carter, executive director of the Sports Business Institute at the University of Southern California. "If the consumer lowers the threshold, it's harder to get back to the true market price. It's a decent short-term strategy that can wreak havoc in the long term." International Speedway, for one, insists the deals will stick around for some time. "We're doing a price-resetting," says chief marketing officer Daryl Wolfe. "We're not talking about a quick-and-dirty discount...