Near the Mercedes, newly arrived rescue workers loaded vans up with hysterical women and children, part of a groupof 40 who had waited outthe bombing in a single house.
He was prepared for the odd world of quants, he said, by playing on the MIT blackjack team--a different version ofthe team portrayed in the movie 21, in which a groupof students figured out that with investor backing, they could consistently beat thehouse in Las Vegas by counting cards.
We heard one story about one of these homes where a local church group came in and did all the work that was needed to strip outthe damaged interior ofthehouse.