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...rutted and worn. But just past the district line stands an ornate, three-meter-high marble edifice festooned with Arabic calligraphy. "Religious Crash Program," announces the massive signboard, before detailing the four Shari'a bylaws Bulukumba has implemented since 2002: no alcohol; mandatory wearing of Islamic attire; required payment of Islamic alms; and Koranic proficiency for students and prospective married couples. As some of the first places to pass such bylaws in Indonesia, Bulukumba and five other regencies in southern Sulawesi have served as an inspiration for scores of other localities across Indonesia. Azwar Hasan, the secretary-general...
Second: Stop treating undergraduate loans as “financial aid.” If a college student and his family cannot afford tuition, then the difference should be covered by a reduction in tuition and fees, not by deferring payment until after graduation. Paying for this would be pocket change for a university as wealthy as Harvard...
...University of Washington in Seattle. "They can read the scientific literature, understand the statistics, but they don't understand how that should influence their treatment of the individual in front of them." What's more, some insurance companies have been very aggressive in using evidence-based arguments to deny payment for untested treatments--a circular problem, because how do you create the evidence the insurers demand unless you test the untested...
...faith in his team’s ability to consistently beat the odds led him to make Convexity’s 20 percent commission on profits—a standard percentage for hedge funds—contingent on its ability to beat various benchmarks. This risky payment plan proved very expensive for Meyer and his team this year. Analysts attribute Convexity’s lower performance to the fact that their particular style of investment, which worked well in previous years, was not a good fit for the market in 2006. Mittelman and Samuels specialize in arbitrage—investing...
...allows interested individuals to sign up online for a free second phone number. When dialed, the caller hears an approximately eight-second sponsored message before being redirected to the cell phone of the “Brring!” user. The company’s customers receive a payment each time their special number is dialed; initial payments are as high as $1, and average $0.05. As a bonus, those who sign up for “Brring!” can select a ringback tone their friends will hear after the ad is played and as they wait...