By Carlos Fuentes
How much of our success can we chalk up to innate ability, and how much to random luck?
November/December 2020
Features
By Ivan J. Houston with Gordon Cohn
No surviving member of Combat Team 370 of the 92nd Buffalo Division will ever forget Aug. 23–24, 1944, the night we prepared to enter combat for the first time.
Departments
By Eric P. Harding
What a short, strange trip it’s been.
By D. Joeff Williams
As you read this message, the Academy will be getting ready for its Annual Meeting and Public Policy Forum, where I will hand the presidential gavel to Tom Campbell. (It’s still hard to imagine that we will not be gathering in D.C. to interact and network face to face.)
By Daniel D. Skwire
When I applied for a summer internship at Unum Life Insurance Company some 30 years ago, I had only the vaguest sense of what actuarial work involved.
By Allan W. Ryan
As I wrap up my final year on the Actuarial Board for Counseling and Discipline (ABCD), I am also presenting my final “Up to Code” article. I decided I would go back four years and revisit the topic of my “Up to Code” article from the September/October 2016 issue of Contingencies.
By Warren Manners
By Tom Toce
Some say puzzle-solving is good for the brain and may stave off dementia.
By Josh Feldman
All throughout my childhood, my favorite game show was “The Price Is Right.”
By Sam Gutterman
We’ve all experienced it sometime in our lives, maybe more often than we care to admit.