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...Harvard case, it is not hidden car qualities, but rather uncertain applicant motivations that force employers to bear all the risk of hiring a “lemon.” As a result, it is both the students and employers who face second-best outcomes in summer and job offers...
Ironically, a better system to mediate these market failures is one known best to pre-med students: residency matching. After their residency interviews, graduating medical students submit rank-order lists of programs to a centralized matching service, the National Residency Matching Program, which optimizes pairings with the rankings of applicants submitted by individual residency programs. The NRMP utilizes the Gale-Shapley algorithm, introduced to solve the canonical “stable marriage problem.” In this algorithm, pairings between parties are optimized such that all possibility of “infidelity” in matches is precluded...
...It’s about women’s equality, although it does have one chapter on lesbian and gay rights. There I tried to develop a framework for thinking about women’s rights grounded in an approach that combines the best features of liberalism, a focus on both liberty and equality, with an appreciation of the origins of subordination...
...shot on digital video, not film and not an HD digital camera. My students wouldn’t touch our equipment today—it’s outdated—but it was the best camera we could afford then. I carried the camera on a harness—a big body bracer. That way I could hold the camera at knee level and move with...
...world's most renowned judges has just landed on the other side of the bench. Spanish National Court magistrate Baltasar Garzón, best known for ordering former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's arrest and extradition for crimes against humanity, was indicted Wednesday by his own country's Supreme Court. Charged with knowingly overreaching his jurisdiction when he opened an investigation into another dictator's crimes - in this case, Spain's Francisco Franco - Garzón has been suspended from his job while he awaits the start of his criminal trial...