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...other elected CEB House representatives are: Mziko Lapiashvili ’09 of Adams; Jack F. Pararas ’08 of Cabot; Michael E. Blair ’08 of Currier; Julie R. S. Fogarty ’08 of Dunster; Chinwe U. Nwosu ’08 of Kirkland; Shaan K. Hathiramani ’08 of Lowell; Kai Wu ’09 of Mather; Reva P. Minkoff ’08 of Pforzheimer; Neesha M. Rao ’08 of Quincy; and Adam Goldenberg ’08 of Winthrop...
...Stein wrote an over-the-top, utterly misguided eulogy for economist Milton Friedman [Nov. 27]. Friedman thought that freedom comes primarily from laissez-faire capitalism, meaning government should leave business alone. This concept was useful at the time of the American Revolution but is surely anachronistic now. Even Adam Smith said that when men of the same trade meet they conspire against the public. Friedman's thinking provides a rationalization for government to turn business loose and empower it to monopolize the market, exploit the consumer and pollute the environment. HARRY L. COOK Ashland...
...time, the council recognized that it inadequately performed these functions, and it outsourced its role in social life to the newly formed College Events Board. But no new organization took on the responsibility of providing services such as shuttles. The events board’s vice chair, Adam Goldenberg ’08, said that “when the UC used to provide shuttles, it did a horrendous job of it.” “But when the UC just threw up its hands and gave up entirely, it did a disservice to the student body that...
...leadership gets to decide both the timing and the terms of debate for everything that comes to the floor, the Senate makes every member essentially a free agent, with the power to gum up the works whenever he or she feels like it. Veteran New York Times reporter Adam Clymer remembers once asking then-Majority Leader George Mitchell - who was better at the job than most - why he was interested in leaving the post to become commissioner of baseball. Why would Mitchell want a job that where he would get bossed around by 32 rich, egotistical maniacs? Mitchell smiled: "Only...
Over the past few weeks, the Undergraduate Council (UC) and its presidential election have dominated the campus dialogue. Will Tom D. Hadfield ’08 and Adam Goldenberg ’08 actually be able to put all course packs online by the next study card day? Will the Ryan A. Petersen ‘08 and Matthew L. Sundquist ‘09 ticket deliver on its promise to effectively promote student advocacy on campus? And could they please start selling Hostess cupcakes at the Lamont Library caf?...