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Winner of the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 1977??which, along with the Nobel Prize, is considered the most prestigious award in economics—he is most famous for his research on taxes and government spending and the way in which policy influences consumer behavior. His name frequently appears on the op-ed pages of major publications, and many say he is a driving force in persuading the public to back President Bush’s tax cuts...
Proponents of ANWR drilling have been improperly minimizing the effects of oil development for years. They like to cite the growth of the caribou herd at Prudhoe Bay—a Northern Alaska drilling site that has been open for business since 1977??where caribou wander daily through industrial sites. But they ignore evidence that total herd growth is sustained by the females whose fecundity is least affected by industrialization. For the shrinking ANWR caribou herds, the impact of drilling on fertility could sound a death knell. Drilling proponents like to point to the small physical footprint...
...Perhaps 1977??s greatest academic contribution to Harvard College was the development of the Core Curriculum. Though the College did not adopt the Core Curriculum until two years later, 1977 saw a faculty committee propose a curriculum divided into five sections— “Letters and Arts,” “History,” “Social and Philosophical Analysis,” “Mathematics and Science,” and “Foreign Languages and Cultures...
...while 1977??s most visible and horrible moment occurred in the Combat Zone of Boston, the significance of 1977 for Harvard at large lies within the changing ideological interests of that year’s undergraduates...
...second class to have totally coeducational residences, women in the Class of 1977??who graduated in the year that Radcliffe officially ceded responsiblity for female undergraduates to Harvard—identified almost entirely with Harvard...