Contingencies Online - September/October 2009

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INSIDE TRACK .............................. ; Heads on Pikes

Linda Mallon

LETTERS................................... ; COMMENTARY............................. ;; National Health Insurance—Socialism or Realism? Edwin Hustead

UP TO CODE...............................;; Don’t Regret Having Filed a Complaint

Julia T. Philips

POLICY BRIEFING...........................;; Politics and the Perils of Inaction

Craig Hanna

AFTER HOURS .............................;; Marathon Man

An Interview with Andy Kudera

WORKSHOP...............................;; A Survey of Capital Allocation Metrics

Susan Witcraft

TRADECRAFT..............................;; The Law of Risk and Light Dave Ingram

HUMOR...................................;; Middle Management

Tom Bakos

BOOKLINKS...............................;; When I’m Sixty-Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them Review by George A. (Sandy) Mackenzie

CRYPTIC PUZZLE...........................;;

I Never Do Anything Twice . . .

Tom Toce

PUZZLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .;; Election Night

Mark Danburg-Wyld

END PAPER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ;;; A Measure of Happiness Richard T. Zatorski

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