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...fact, the continued existence of skinny jeans in the closet of the American male consumer is one of the biggest issues plaguing society today. Unfortunately, the anthropologists have yet to come up with an explanation for this phenomenon, and there is currently no “Social Analysis?? core offering devoted to the subject (although you never know with “GenEd”). Regardless, the question still remains: why are these god-forsaken leggings so popular among members of the male gender, even among the bigger specimens...
Sixty-one years after his hallmark book “Economics: An Introductory Analysis?? was first published, Paul A. Samuelson, the first American to win the Nobel Prize in economics, died in his home on Sunday after a brief illness...
...meaning from poems written today—even for those intimately involved in reading and writing them—particularly on the first go-round. This stems from the myriad ways of experiencing a given poem and each way’s respective degree of appeal. Readings based on analysis??a summary of the narrative thread or a pinpointing of the poem’s speaker, for instance—are as important as emotionally subjective reactions. Both are more difficult (the former to produce, the latter to explain) in contemporary poetry than, say, in a Shakespearean sonnet...
...decided in 1988 to jump ship. While the worlds of visual media, publishing, and finance were still thriving, he said, the “literary” intellectualism of the Trilling-Sontag variety (definition: “a dinner party can become acrimonious over such issues as Freudian analysis??) was extinct, or at least highly endangered. Kristol personally decided to head to Washington, D.C., the nation’s go-to location for public policy. But he argued that, “if you want an animated discussion of ‘large ideas’ about...
...changed financial landscape, many academics said there was no need to overhaul economic thinking.“I don’t think there’s any new particles being discovered,” Merton says, comparing the fundamentals of finance—market efficiency and risk-benefit analysis??to the building blocks of physical matter.While several major financial institutions have disappeared, leaving experts to sift through the wreckage, many Harvard professors said that the backlash on quantitative models was largely unwarranted. Furthermore, they say quantitative models have become so prevalent in recent years—used...