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True Maroons: Nate Silver, Milton Shadur, and Daniel Brumberg

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
"Statistician Talks about Election Polls and Baseball" (North by Northwestern, Feb. 23, 2009)
"You don’t have to have, frankly, a political science degree to talk about politics; you don’t have to be a pundit. You just have to look at the world intelligently and fairly and work hard and be creative about it," says Nate Silver, AB'00, in a new interview.

• "Number Cruncher" (University of Chicago Magazine, Jul.-Aug. 2008)


• "Truthiness in Numbers" (UChiBLOGo, Oct. 13, 2008)


• "What Will Nate Silver Do Next?" (University News Office, Jan. 26, 2009)

FAIR JUDGEMENT
"Judge's 'Respect for the Law and Integrity Are Unquestioned'" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 27, 2009)
The success of Milton Shadur, SB'43, JD'49, as a judge is due in part to his fairness, according to attorneys part of the Chicago Council of Lawyers.

ISLAM AND THE WEST
"Taliban's Tentacles Reach the U.S." (Georgetown/On Faith blog, Washington Post, Feb. 23, 2009)
"Small, individualized 9/11's intrude into our lives, giving the lie to any notion that we are safe," writes Daniel Brumberg, AM'82, PhD'91.

February 27, 2009