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INsIDe trAck ..................... 6
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Linda Mallon
PresIDeNt’s messAGe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
From Black Box to Glass House
Dave Sandberg
Letters.......................... 10
commeNtAry..................... 12
Financing Long-Term Care
Stephen A. Moses
uP to coDe............................... 18
A Look at Transparency
Robert J. Rietz
sPecIAL sectIoN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Recruiters
WorkshoP .............................. 60
A Further Refinement on the
Completion Factor Method
Louis Korb
stAtIstIcAL mIsceLLANy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
The Will Rogers Phenomenon
Edward Scher
trADecrAft ............................. 64
Mind the Gap—Recognizing Perceived and
Ultimate Liabilities
Susan J. Forray
bookLINks .............................. 68
The Theory That Would Not Die
Review by James Guszcza and Thomas N. Herzog
cryPtIc PuzzLe........................... 72
There Once Was a Man From
Nantucket
Tom Toce
PuzzLes................. 74
A Day at the Races
Mark Danburg-Wyld
eND PAPer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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Sam Gutterman
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