Scholars and pundits will continue to debate whether Iraq was a strategic success or failure, and much of their analysis will depend on what happens next.

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Roger McCarthy of Failure Analysis Associates testified that Jose and Kitty Menendez were sitting side-by-side on a sofa in the den when they were attacked, and that the brothers aimed "kneecapping" shots at their parents to make the killings look like a Mafia hit.

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With Fukushima, it looks like there was a serious failure in the risk analysis, design, and approval process.

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That failure means that investors and researchers will zero in on the HDL analysis published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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His system for forecasting the entire bracket uses survival analysis, a method for predicting failure in systems, and gives Florida a 15.7% chance of winning the whole thing, also the best of any team.

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The failure by corporate management and their legal advisors to confront these issues in any serious fashion is not surprising given the wholesale failure of the participants and facilitators in this industry to have undertaken a serious analysis of these risks.

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If government does have a role, it should be only when rigorous analysis suggests more good than bad will come of it, weighing the realities of both market failure and government failure.

FORBES: Co-authored with Berin Szoka.