Challenges in the news - 02/02/2008

Insurance-Trial Goal: Keep It Simple. Complex GenRe/AIG Case Promises to Be Challenge for Prosecutors

The challenge will be proving defendants knew what they were doing was wrong and wasn’t just complex accounting, all while keeping juror’s attention. Still, the government faces a major challenge: Overcoming the tedium inherent in an accounting-fraud case.

A number of companies with funding requirements this year would rather borrow domestically than tap the international bond market, which remains a challenging place to raise capital due to persistent risk aversion.

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And while I hadn’t exactly joined the club to which they belong, I was surely a partial, honorary member, my mettle challenged and established, my Stuff in the vicinity of Right.

The challenge is to present a plan that is acceptable and intelligent.
We all (need to) look at the overall picture and change in society what needs to be changed.

Visionaries: Architecture – Trading Spaces. Sidestepping the critics, Brad Cloepfil transforms New York’s most notorious building – and the challenge of museum design – into a gleaming vision of the future.

“What’s the point of doing this if you’re not going to be challenged? I want to have the fear of God in me,” says Monaghan of her on-set challenges.

Theory & Practice (WSJ) –Move to run Dutch firm from Beijing means meeting challenges

Amid calls for change, the tension is building. Challenges ahead could thin field.

Mr. Obama, the Democrat and first-term senator from Illinois, and an African-American, promised to challenge Washington.