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...gains, it could easily get away with inflating profits. More specifically, the fund could use the most optimistic models to price its illiquid assets, which include mortgage-backed securities and other swaps. After all, economists disagree about how to value these assets, so the fund is not necessarily being dishonest in its assessment...
Brown University professor Tricia Rose wants you to know that no one is right about hip-hop. In her new book, The Hip Hop Wars, Rose takes on all sides, arguing that fans and detractors alike have advanced illogical, dishonest and offensive arguments about why the genre is bad and why it's great. She spoke to TIME about how radio is killing hip-hop, why artists need to take more responsibility and what the music used to be like...
...causes-violence camp is incredibly dishonest about the profound role of structural racism, of economic disadvantange that has been produced over decades. It's not just personal, lazy behavior. It's a dishonest way of dumping on hip-hop a set of conditions that we are responsible for as a nation. That being said, that doesn't mean that a constantly violent narrative is a good thing. I'm not suggesting there shouldn't be a challenge to it to some degreee. But it's not the source of the problem. It's a red herring...
...RELATIONSHIPSSince Lowell implemented the Housing system in the 1920s, changes in technology have revolutionized student life, but the Houses have remained relatively static.Storus said that simply placing an Eliot House look-a-like across the River would be “intellectually dishonest.” “Would Ford produce a car that looked like the Model T now?” Storus jokingly questioned.“These buildings look the way they do because they have embedded in them a political structure, a social structure, and also a technological structure,” he said.Storus said...
...spackle over problematic gaps and inconsistencies in the ideas he presents - is obvious to all but his most starry-eyed fans. But grousing about such crimes - as many do - does little to explain his enormous popularity. Chopra is as rich as he is today not because he has been dishonest with anyone, but because his basic message - that love, health and happiness are possible, that mystery is real and that the universe is ultimately a friendly and benevolent place where orthodoxies old and new can meet and make peace with one another - is one that he wants to believe...