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...global economy does continue to hum along, it will partly be by accident. What is conspicuously absent, the economists agreed, is a constructive dialogue between policymakers in China and the U.S. that would put the two nations' increasingly interdependent economic relationship on a more balanced footing. In that scenario, the U.S. would curb consumption and start saving more, while the Chinese--who have been buying hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. securities, especially U.S. Treasury bonds--would save less and do more to boost their domestic demand. That would go a long way toward reducing...
...Cheney could be charged with negligence, defined as failing to understand the dangers involved and disregarding them, or recklessness, defined as understanding the dangers and disregarding them." Which is perhaps the neatest summary I've seen of the public debate surrounding the Bush Administration's war in Iraq. Absent further evidence, the Administration seems guilty of negligence-a cavalier insensitivity to the unimaginable calamities that attend the use of lethal force. And while I have little faith that Cheney's awful experience at the Armstrong Ranch will change his views of war and peace, I do hope that it gives...
...Silences That Speak Volumes,” column, Feb. 13), I only hope he will be sitting in the first row. Kavulla obviously fancies himself a bastion of enlightened thinking, but his banal analysis strays far from Voltaire and merely highlights his inherent racism. Tolerance is obviously absent in Kavulla’s vision of world affairs which is why he fails to understand the severity of these images for Muslims across the globe. As he correctly states, the offensive images did not warrant firebombing and violent protest, but neither has their publication encouraged intelligent debate, perhaps the only worthy...
...RULE BY THE MOB’Many of the president’s backers said they were surprised by the strength of anti-Summers sentiment at the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting—which may explain why so many of his strongest supporters were absent from the session.“I mean, this was like someone having a heart attack,” said Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin. “This was not like the patient had diabetes and we knew there was a problem.”Allison Professor of Economics Lawrence F. Katz, like...
...were on leave last semester. Do you feel qualified to be leading the charge after being absent during such a critical period? JR: That’s a good question, but I was on e-mail and I received most of the e-mails that were going back and forth. I read the minutes from Faculty meetings and individuals were also e-mailing me, so I had a sense of what was going...