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What: "In 1949, in an interview in DownBeat magazine, I said, 'Jazz is like a sponge'," Brubeck remembers, down the phone line from Boston, where he's on a tour that includes three nights at New York's Blue Note jazz club. "I said, 'It's gonna pick up music from all over the world, and some day you might even hear a Chinese trumpet player'.

Writer: Dave Brubeck

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Date: Sep 11 2011 10:52 AM

What: "Scientists now know that getting cancer is like being attacked by a multi-headed monster: How can you really be sure which part did the most damage?"

Writer: Brett Israel

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Date: Oct 11 2011 8:25 PM

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"Consider yourself blessed if your barber understands and delivers. A barber is like a best friend, once you find a good one, you stick to them. My barber was passionate. He made sure that I was pleased with the outcome and he didn't disappoint. You find people loving what they do everywhere; usually in places where we never look. "

Writer: Asad Aamir

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Date: Apr 23 2014 7:36 PM

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"What should have been obvious to me was that there is a tremendous mismatch in skills between the SEC regulators and the people they are supposed to be regulating. The quants who create these financial products understand differential equations and nonnormal statist-ics; they program in languages the SEC doesn't speak; they run statistical packages the SEC doesn't even know exist. The quants are busy data mining with supercomputers while the SEC is still panning by hand. I suspect SEC attorneys like Grant Ward are probably well- intentioned. I'm sure they want to do a good job, but they never should have been put in their positions. Sending lawyers to oversee capital markets professionals is like sending chickens to chase foxes; it just doesn't work, because there's an unbridgeable skills gap between the two. It would be akin to asking me to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court."

page 278

"No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller"

Writer: Harry Markopolos

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Date: Aug 3 2014 4:44 PM