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Whenever my phone at home rings at odd hours, the person on the other end is almost always Howard Chua-Eoan, one of our assistant managing editors and the person responsible for overseeing TIME's correspondents in the U.S. and around the world. He is the bearer of late-breaking news, telling me about the latest crisis and whom he dispatched to cover it. I always give a groggy O.K. since Howard's judgment on how to handle a story is impeccable...
Finally, when it comes to making predictions of an impending recession, private economists either have no such skills or they just lack the nerve to issue dire warnings. Being the bearer of bad news can be professionally risky, since optimism sells better than pessimism. Government forecasters are also shy about raising red flags on the economy because of the political ramifications. Politicians generally dismiss talk of an economic downturn, preferring instead to highlight prosperity--at least if they want to get re-elected. Asks economist Prakash Loungani at the International Monetary Fund: "How good are these forecasters at predicting...
Last week, for the first time in my collegiate career, The Crimson was made the bearer of bad news about fellow students. It is now clear why many people avoid the news: it’s depressing...
...those three--Born, Jim Braude and Henrietta Davis--Born, who followed loosely in the footsteps of longtime CCA standard-bearer Francis H. Duehay '55, was the most visible CCA leader on the council...
DIED. STANLEY KRAMER, 87, producer-director and grudging bearer of the label "message filmmaker" who received nine Oscar nominations but never won; in Los Angeles. Kramer used film to wrestle with such knotty themes as racism (The Defiant Ones), nuclear holocaust (On the Beach) and Nazi war crimes (Judgment at Nuremberg). Toward the end of his career, critics routinely panned his films--even box-office successes like Guess Who's Coming to Dinner--as oversimplified and maudlin...