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...Alan Blinder, a professor of economics at Princeton, writes in the November-December 1997 edition of Foreign Affairs that government is too political. That is his way of saying that the people, through their elected representatives, are incapable of self-rule. In the name of greater efficiency and prosperity, Blinder would send complex and contentious political questions to unelected bureaucrats, further degrading Americans' honor when we should be reclaiming...
When I was a first-year here during the 1986-87 school year, a very popular and well-respected history professor named Alan Brinkley was denied tenure. Professor Brinkley had a distinguished scholarly record, appeared to be generally well-liked by his colleagues and was adored by his students. Many of these students were understandably upset; letters were written to the Crimson and to then-University president Derek C. Bok, and I'm sure at least a petition or two was circulated. In the end, another university snatched up Alan Brinkley (Columbia or Princeton, I think), and a semester...
Former Wyoming Senator Alan K. Simpson will head up the new guard of leaders at the Institute of Politics (IOP) this semester, following the resignations in late December of the two top staff members, Director Phil R. Sharp and Director of the ARCO Forum Heather P. Campion...
...BULLS Neither Alan Greenspan nor an October shudder halted momentum. And Michael Jordan's team also did well...
Bill Clinton is not supposed to jawbone the chairman of the Federal Reserve, lest the financial world think he is trying to influence interest rates. But he got a chance to bend ALAN GREENSPAN's ear on another subject this week when the Fed chairman and his wife, NBC correspondent ANDREA MITCHELL, passed through the receiving line at the annual White House Christmas party for members of the press. As they posed for pictures, Clinton asked Greenspan whether he and Mitchell owned a dog. "You ought to get one," Clinton enthused as he recounted tales of his new puppy Buddy...