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Perhaps the most important of Greenspan's early gurus was Ayn Rand, the best-selling author of novels like Atlas Shrugged. Though Rand is now generally viewed as a pop philosopher who was neither a rigorous nor original thinker, she was fresh and influential when Greenspan met her in 1952. The economist became taken with her theory of objectivism, which argues that society is best served by "rational selfishness," in which people act only to further their own private interests. Greenspan, who was a friend of Rand's until her death in 1982, credits the writer with teaching him that...
...correspondence and a portable computer on which he wrote letters, articles and, it is suggested, portions of a Blackford Oakes novel. Buckley's boatmates, too, seemed eager not to appear that they were getting away from it all. In addition to sharing sailing duties with a paid crew, the author and three of his companions stood literary watch. Evan Galbraith, a former ambassador to France, was drafting his memoirs. Richard Clurman, once chief of correspondents for TIME, was attending to an ambitious work about the press, and Buckley's son Christopher copyread his humorous novel The White House Mess...
Scholars of United States international relations hail the plan, and its author, for exhibiting a sense of idealism that was tempered with shrewd diplomacy. They say that the Marshall Plan confirmed that the victorious American government would be committed to pursuing the role of a leader among nations...
...production error, an opinion piece on page two of yesterday's edition did not have a by-line. The article concerning the choice of the Commencement speaker contains the views of its author, Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz. It is not the editorial position of The Crimson...
Loewenheim, the author of several books on Germany, said von Weizsacker assisted his father, Baron Ernst von Weizsacker, in authoring untruthful memoirs of the Baron's war years. The historian also said that the president--who served as his father's lawyer during the Nuremberg trials--claims to this day that his father was unaware of the existence of death camps in the face of what Loewenheim called overwhelming evidence to the contrary...