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...DIED. JOHN COWPERTHWAITE, 90, Hong Kong's hard-nosed financial secretary from 1961-1971; in St. Andrews, Scotland. A disciple of 18th century economist Adam Smith, Cowperthwaite reduced the government's role in the economic affairs of the then-British colony, eliminating tariffs, lowering income tax to a maximum of 15% and slashing bureaucratic red tape. Hong Kong flourished under this policy of what he called "positive non-intervention," leading economist Milton Friedman to hail him as the embodiment of laissez-faire economics. "I did very little," Cowperthwaite said of his part in Hong Kong's prosperity...
...female participants did not want what they needed it to want. She disliked one of her suitors, but it would make a better story if she liked him. So they sat her down for an interview. Who's your favorite celebrity? they asked. She replied that she really loved Adam Sandler. Later, in the editing room, they spliced out Sandler's name and dropped in audio of her saying the male contestant's name...
Okrent started his job at the Times in the midst of “widespread skepticism” in the newsroom about the necessity of a public editor, said Adam Nagourney, a political correspondent for the paper who was a fellow at the Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics this fall. Nagourney—himself a target of a 2004 Okrent column criticizing the Times’ coverage of the Howard Dean campaign—said much of that skepticism evaporated by the end of Okrent’s tenure...
...mail records show, Scanlon sent Abramoff Scanlon's draft of a statement praising Adam Kidan, a co-owner of SunCruz Casinos, a Florida gambling-boat company that Abramoff and Kidan had bought the month before, after a public dispute with the previous owner. Abramoff and Kidan, who have since pleaded guilty in Florida to fraud in connection with their financing of the SunCruz purchase, hoped that Ney's positive statement would "let people know that SunCruz now was in honest hands," according to a source familiar with the case. In an Oct. 23 e-mail, Abramoff proposed throwing...
...Adam A. Rowe for James K. Herms & another...