Legends of Notre Dame 2012

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1. When are drone killings illegal?
   The question must be answered in terms of
   international law. When the United States kills people
   in foreign, sovereign states, the world looks to
   international law for the standard of justification. In
   war, enemy fighters may be killed under a standard
   of reasonable necessity; outside war, authorities are
   far more restricted in their right to resort to lethal
   force.
   Independent scholars confirm that many drone
   attacks are occurring outside war zones. These
   experts know the legal definition
   of war, and they understand
   why it is important to know it:
   Above all, protecting human
   rights is different in war than
   from protecting them
   in peace.
   Mary Ellen O’Connell
   

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2. Darcia Narvarez
   

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3. Martin Wolfson
   

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4. Rick Garnett
   2010 Media Legend
   

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5. Lionel Jensen
   

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6. A Mormon-Catholic Ticket?
   Scott Appleby
   2009 Media Legend
   The presumptive Republican vice-
   presidential candidate Paul Ryan has been
   taking heat from Catholic groups, including
   dozens of nuns, priests and theologians,
   who issued a statement denouncing his
   budget proposal as "morally indefensible."
   "A budget that turns its back on the
   hungry, the elderly and the sick while
   giving more tax breaks to the wealthiest
   few," they wrote, "can't be justified in
   Christian terms."
   

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7. What’s a Monkey to Do in Tampa?
   When I asked about the Tampa macaque, Captain
   Tom reiterated what both the F.W.C. and an
   anthropologist at Notre Dame who studies
   macaques, Agustín Fuentes, told me: in the wild,
   young macaques that challenge their troop leaders
   and lose are often forced out, left to wander in
   search of a new troop.
   The Mystery Monkey is presumed to be one of these
   disenfranchised males; it just kept wandering until
   it hit a city full of human primates instead.
   Agustín Fuentes
   

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8. A deadly denouement for
   foreign troops in Afghanistan
   David Cortright
   David Cortright of the University of Notre Dame’s
   Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies sees the
   insider killings as a sign that the U.S. strategy to hand
   over security to allied regional militias is doomed, as
   was the Soviet effort in the 1980s to mold Afghanistan
   into an ideological ally.
   "A political option needs to be pursued," he said,
   embracing a Rand Corp. blueprint for Afghan peace
   talks drafted last year. It proposes U.N. oversight of a
   forum including the government of President Hamid
   Karzai, rival political forces and the Taliban, with the
   United States and Afghanistan's neighbors conducting
   parallel talks.
   

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9. StanChart Sanction Is
   Insufficient: Gurule
   Jimmy Gurule, professor of law
   at the University of Notre Dame,
   told CNBC that the fine imposed
   on Standard Chartered bank is
   not a significant deterrent as the
   bank could of still
   make a profit on
   alleged dealing
   with Iran.
   

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10. Viewpoints: Why is faith falling in the US?
    Conservative US churches may be doing
    better, but can't gloat. According to exhaustive
    social science data analysed by Robert
    Putnam of Harvard and David Campbell of
    Notre Dame, all organised American religion
    is in demographic decline.
    So, good news for atheism? Not really.
    Putnam and Campbell, writing in their much-
    praised 2010 book American Grace, found
    that atheism continues to be confined to a
    relatively tiny population, disproportionately
    concentrated in academia and media.
    David Campbell
    

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11. The Wild West: (Un)true grit
    In the summer of 1823, according to newspaper
    accounts, a female grizzly bear sprang from the
    bushes along a tributary of the Yellowstone River
    and tore into a trapper and fur trader named Hugh
    Glass. She slashed his face, munched his scalp and
    removed a fist-sized hunk from his posterior.
    Members of Glass' expedition ran to his aid and
    killed the animal, but his prognosis looked grim.
    Two men were posted to stay behind and bury him
    when he succumbed to the inevitable. After six
    days, the duo abandoned him, still comatose and
    gurgling. They took his gun, knife and
    ammunition.
    Jon T. Coleman
    

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12. How Lying Affects Your Health
    Anita Kelly, a psychology professor at the University
    of Notre Dame in Indiana, spent 10 weeks tracking
    the health of 110 adults. She asked half of them to
    stop lying throughout the study period—which meant
    no false statements, though participants could still
    omit the truth, keep secrets, and dodge questions
    they didn't want to answer.
    The other folks weren't given any specific instructions
    about lying, though they knew they'd be reporting the
    number of fibs they told each week. In addition to
    taking a weekly lie-detector test, participants filled out
    questionnaires about their physical and mental
    health, as well as the quality of their relationships.
    Anita Kelly
    

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13. In Defense Of Short-
    Sellers: Bans Cost
    Investors More Than
    $1B In 2008
    Authors Hamid Mehran, Robert Battalio,
    and Paul Schultz looked at the effects of
    the short-selling ban instituted on
    September 19 in the wake of the Lehman
    Brothers bankruptcy in a paper titled Market
    Declines: What Is Accomplished by Banning
    Short-Selling.
    They then compared that to the performance
    of stocks in the aftermath of the 2011 credit
    downgrade of the U.S. at the hands of
    Standard & Poor’s, when the S&P 500 fell
    6.6%, marking its worst decline since the
    depths of the financial crisis. Paul Schultz
    

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14. Are some banks too big to
    prosecute?
    …SCB is not an isolated case. In 2009, Lloyds Bank and Credit Suisse were fined $350
    million and $536 million, respectively, for allegedly removing or altering information to
    conceal prohibited transactions with Iranian clients and customers from other sanctioned
    countries. In 2010, ABN Amro and Barclays were docked $500 million and $298 million,
    respectively, for allegedly committing similar crimes.
    Then, this June, ING Bank paid the largest ever fine -- $619 million -- against a bank for
    allegedly moving billions illegally through the U.S. financial system on behalf of Iranian
    and Cuban clients.
    Jimmy Gurulé
    

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15. What the Ryan Pick Means for
    Religion and the Romney
    Campaign
    David Campbell
    Instead, Romney opted for Ryan, who may
    be a more natural fit on religious
    grounds. ”Historically there has not been
    the same level of animosity between
    Mormons and Catholics as between
    Mormons and evangelicals,” says political
    scientist David Campbell of Notre Dame.
    

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16. Jimmy Gurule, a former
    undersecretary for enforcement at the
    Treasury Department, said officials
    would look to see if any violations were
    willful. If they were, individuals involved
    could face prison terms and the company
    could pay a large fine, said Mr. Gurule, a
    law professor at the University of Notre
    Dame.
    NCR's Subsidiary in Syria Accused of
    Sanctions Lapse
    Jimmy Gurulé
    

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17. U.S. Postal Service
    Posts Quarterly
    Loss Of $5.2 Billion
    “It’s going to take a calamity,”
    said James O’Rourke, a
    University of Notre Dame
    management professor. “When
    the post office literally runs out
    of money to pay its employees
    and suppliers, that’s what it’s
    going to take to get Congress to
    act. They’ve shown little interest
    to this point.”
    James O’Rourke
    

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18. Carlyle Group reports
    $59M non-cash loss in
    2nd quarter
    Tim Loughran, a finance
    professor at the University of Notre
    Dame Mendoza College of
    Business, said Carlyle’s stock
    performance to date “means it’s
    not a flash in the pan. It’s not like
    they are going into social media,”
    Lougran said. “They are buying
    auto paint. It’s not very glamorous,
    but sometimes slow and steady and
    dull wins.”
    Timothy Loughran
    

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19. Campaign 2012: Smoke and
    mirrors or outright lies
    "Voters are confronted with a firestorm of contentious ads, each
    followed by an immediate and aggressive denial, almost all of it
    devoid of evidence," said Joe Urbany, a University of Notre Dame
    marketing professor who studies the impact of negative campaign
    advertising. "It's impossible to distinguish fact from conjecture
    from fiction."
    Joe Urbany
    

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21. More Than 2 Parents
    Allowed, Says Calif.
    Senate
    But with parental duties divided
    among three or more people, “the
    difficulty is that no one will have
    enough of the parenting
    responsibility to allow the child to
    flourish,” observed Margaret
    Brinig, a law professor at the
    University of Notre Dame. Margaret Brinig
    

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22. Mathematicians create "Richter
    scale" of Sudoku difficulty
    …Zoltan Toroczkai of Notre Dame University
    in Indiana, recently published a paper in
    "Applied Physics Letters" detailing their work
    on Sudoku-solving algorithms that move far
    beyond the simpler "brute force" systems
    already used by dedicated Sudoku
    enthusiasts….
    Zoltan Toroczkai
    …A brute force system simply runs
    all possible combinations of
    numbers on a Sudoku board until
    the correct answer is found. The
    system works, and according
    to…Toroczkai, it is relavitely easy to
    set up, but the answers take time to
    arrive.
    

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23. Testimony at Sandusky
    trial shows missed
    chances
    Ann Tenbrunsel, a professor of business
    ethics at the University of Notre Dame,
    attributes the failure to stop Sandusky to a
    phenomenon she calls "motivated
    blindness," a tendency, whether
    subconscious or deliberate or sometimes
    both, to ignore unethical or even criminal
    behavior by others when you perceive it to
    be in your best interest to do so.
    Motivated blindness "means I don't probe,
    I don't ask, I don't believe," Tenbrunsel
    said. "I have evidence in front of me but
    choose to disregard facts." Ann Tenbrunsel
    

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24. ¿Pueden los
    observadores de la ONU
    imponer la paz en Siria?
    La negativa del régimen de
    permitir observadores de estos
    países no es sorpresiva, dijo
    Asher Kaufman, profesor
    asociado en el Instituto Kroc de
    Estudios para la Paz
    Internacional de la Universidad
    de Notre Dame.
    Asher Kaufman
    

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25. Russian UN Veto
    Shields Assad As
    Violence Rages In Syria
    Russia will be perceived as
    “having direct responsibility if he
    uses chemical weapons or
    unleashes more firepower from
    the air,” said George Lopez, a
    former UN sanctions
    investigator who now teaches at
    the Kroc Institute for
    International Peace Studies at
    the University of Notre Dame in
    Indiana.
    George Lopez
    

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26. What Americans Earn
    "Government transfers account for a
    much larger fraction of the total
    income for those on the bottom of the
    income distribution," said economics
    professor James X. Sullivan of
    Notre Dame University. For some, like
    the elderly on the lower end of the
    income distribution, government-
    provided social security can be their
    sole source of income.
    Jim Sullivan
    

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27. Co-Sleeping Research
    Looks At Breathing
    Risks For Baby
    "I think the message is a fair
    one," said Dr. James
    McKenna, head of the Mother-
    Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at
    the University of Notre Dame.
    "They argue that it is not
    enough to simply judge a
    practice like bed-sharing as
    being simply 'dangerous' before
    determining what kind of bed-
    sharing is involved and who is
    involved."
    Jim Sullivan
    

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28. Study: Aging can effect eye 'recognition'
    However, a study at the University of
    Notre Dame suggests iris biometric
    enrollment is susceptible to an aging
    process that causes recognition
    performance to degrade slowly over
    time.
    "The biometric community has long
    accepted that there is no 'template
    aging effect' for iris recognition,
    meaning that once you are enrolled in
    an iris recognition system, your
    chances of experiencing a false non-
    match error remain constant over
    time," Kevin Bowyer of the department
    of computer science and engineering
    said. Kevin Bowyer
    

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29. Child’s Death May Raise Mother’s Mortality
    …William N. Evans, a
    professor of economics at
    Notre Dame and an author of
    the study, said that “the
    similarity of the finding across
    income, education, marital
    status and sex of the child
    makes us think that there’s
    something causal going on
    here.”
    Bill Evans
    

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30. Presidential campaigns missing the mark
    in advertising to Latinos
    Perhaps the Romney campaign is
    paying close attention to studies
    that show advertising in Spanish
    can turn off white and black voters.
    When white and black audiences
    saw ads with a Latino endorsement
    or in Spanish, their support for a
    candidate dropped, said Ricardo
    Ramirez, a professor of political
    science at Notre Dame.
    Ricardo Ramirez
    

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31. Weak economy
    breeds more co-
    worker rivalry
    Of course, there are plenty of
    benefits to being competitive.
    Timothy Judge, a
    management professor at the
    University of Notre Dame, noted
    that research has shown that the
    best athletes are also the most
    competitive. Tim Judge
    

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32. Syria:
    Country in
    crisis
    George Lopez,
    peace studies
    professor at the
    University of Notre
    Dame discusses
    recent
    developments in
    Syria.
    

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33. Humanitarian
    Intervention in Syria: A
    Classic Just War?
    Morally, Syria, like Rwanda and
    Bosnia-Herzegovina, could be seen as
    St. Augustine's classic case for a just
    war: love of neighbor may, at times,
    permit, even require, the use of force
    to protect the innocent. According to
    Pope John Paul II, the international
    community has not only a right but a
    duty to intervene to "disarm the
    aggressor" when "the survival of
    populations and entire ethnic groups is
    seriously compromised." The
    international law concept of a
    responsibility to protect (R2P) makes
    similar moral claims. Gerard Powers
    

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34. La Fed y el BCE acaparan los
    reflectores
    "No espero ningún cambio importante
    en la política", adelanta Jeffrey
    Bergstrand, ex economista de la Fed
    que hoy es profesor de finanzas en la
    Universidad de Notre Dame. "La Fed se
    cuidará de hacer cualquier cosa a
    menos que vea una desaceleración
    más sustantiva".
    

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