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...definitely just want to do better,” he said in reference to his performance on the national stage. “And I think I’m capable of doing a lot better...
...endowment exponentially, the story doesn’t end there. Many people strongly urge slow, low risk growth for educational institutions. Careful growth discourages $35 million salaries for investment-portfolio jockeys, helps restore balance between the liberal arts and the sciences, and minimizes steep budget fluctuations (leading to better departmental planning and reducing cuts). Most importantly, it controls the viral hunger for ever-larger returns on capital—a hunger that subverts the university’s critical search for a “veritas” that cannot be found in the marketplace...
...White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, shared the ranking with economist Richard H. Thaler of the University of Chicago’s business school. The two co-authored “Nudge,” a book arguing how public and private organizations can help people make better choices in their daily lives in 2008. Sunstein served as an assistant professor and full professor at the University of Chicago before coming to the Harvard Law School last fall...
Hounshell added that the magazine’s editors were particularly impressed with Sunstein’s work on libertarian paternalism, a theory that examines how the government can encourage people to make the decision they would take if they were better informed...
...After consultations with our allies, I then announced a strategy recognizing the fundamental connection between our war effort in Afghanistan and the extremist safe havens in Pakistan. I set a goal that was narrowly defined as disrupting, dismantling and defeating al-Qaeda and its extremist allies, and pledged to better coordinate our military and civilian effort...