10:19 Contents Epigraph Begin Reading P.S. Insights, Interviews & More… About the Author Praise Other Books by Paulo Coelho Credits Copyright About the Publisher On November 11, 1997, Veronika decided that the moment to kill herself had—at last!—arrived. She carefully cleaned the room that she rented in a convent, turned off the heat, brushed her teeth, and lay down. SHE PICKED up the four packs of sleeping pills from her bedside table. Instead of crushing them and mixing them with water
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combination of sadness and joy. There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can. This happens more often than I let on. It is April 12, in the last year before the millennium, and as I leave my house, I glance around. The sky is overcast and gray, but as I move down the street, I notice that the dogwoods
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concentrate on the ethical issues, and so it will quickly dispose of 'efficiency,' leaving detailed argument for another time. Then, taking the devil's advocate position, it will focus on demolishing the certainty behind the ethical obligation, by questioning the role of ethics in society in general, but specifically in computer security. Indeed this paper will claim that an unsuspected morality and ritual lies behind many real-world security choices and much so-called 'objective' academic analysis
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paternalism. After all, if individuals have so many cognitive difficulties then it is surely possible that government intervention can improve welfare. As Christine Jolls, Cass Sunstein, and Richard Thaler write: “bounded rationality pushes toward a sort of antiantipaternalism—a skepticism about antipaternalism, but not an affirmative 2 defense of paternalism.” Even if these authors stop short of endorsing traditional hard paternalism, such as sin taxes and prohibitions,
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Leung Chi Keung v Market Misconduct Tribunal 18 April 2012 Court of Appeal CA Civil Appeal No 256 of 2010 CACV 256/2010 Citations:|[2012] 2 HKLRD 786 English Judgment[2012] HKEC 535 English Judgment| Presiding Judges: |Cheung, Yuen and Chu JJA| Phrases: |Banking and finance - insider dealing - fund manager found culpable by dealing in shares of company after equity salesman gave him information about proposed placement of company's shares - whether s.270(1)(e) elements that equity salesman
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defines that takaful is a Islamic insurance in which all participants are members and contribute to a pool of funds that provide assistance in the event of loss on the part of any of the participants. It is an Islamic insurance arrangement avoids the prohibitions against gambling and interest in Islamic Law. Takaful, it originates from the Arabic word Kafalah, which means "guaranteeing each other" or "joint guarantee". It is based on the principles of ta’awan (mutual cooperation) and Tabarru’ (donation)
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The RUF: revolutionary ideals turned ideology of terror The RUF was created around 1982 by a small number of disenfranchised Sierra Leonean intellectuals with an ambiguous revolutionary ideology with a poorly articulated socialist agenda. The RUF’s pledge to fight against the one-party system, imposed by the All People’s Congress since independence in 1961, and for a more transparent and democratic state, initially received some popular support across ethnic and religious lines
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Q-3 to present your views on the goals of IBF and its responsibility (if any) to a ‘bigger agenda’; between being part of a movement as opposed to being an ‘industry’ Initial or Ideal Goals and Objectives of IBF Based On Chapra Concept and It Is Benefits The idea of Islamic banking was initiated and brought up by some economists who were conscious about socio economic development of Muslim nations based on Islamic principles. It was based
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This page intentionally left blank An Introduction to Islamic Law The study of Islamic law can be a forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discussion of Islamic law in its pre-modern natural habitat. The author expounds on the roles of jurists, who reasoned about the
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assignment contains the twenty homework questions that have been handed out to us students throughout the course, along with the answers I’ve composed in order of answering these. 1. One of the causes of management control problems is lack of direction. Why does this problem exist? Lack of direction, a fundamental element in many dysfunctional organizations, constitutes one of the primary needs for management control. Employees are likely to perform in an unsatisfactory manner unless expectations and
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