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...evidence from Asia shows that its economies became more market-driven as they became more advanced. That's been true in China as well. Despite all the talk of state capitalism, Beijing's leaders continue to liberalize the economy. In January, a free-trade agreement between China and ASEAN came into full effect, creating a free-trade zone with more potential customers than NAFTA. China's State Council also approved the very capitalist practices of short selling of stocks and futures trading. The big question about China-style state capitalism is not whether other nations should mimic it to compete...
...last blocking group vacation, beach football was almost unanimously booed down in favor of sunbathing after about 15 minutes. We were a failed inception of the Great American Bro Blocking Group. The Brblocking Group, if you will. That is, we were, until “NFL Blitz” came along...
...debate unless it was for a debate team or a class; that no one would go on a day trip or organize a dinner with friends unless it was as a retreat for some organization; that no one would, say, spend four years together in a library unless it came with a diploma. I would extend this definition of institution into the more informal realm of culture, for example, to Alcohol: the institution of drinking on weekend nights is so standard for us that even if we nominally regret not having finished that paper instead of “going...
Federal support for university-based research came amidst Harvard’s ongoing efforts to push for increased funding for the sciences...
...wildly inappropriate, terribly disrespectful, and downright mean, and I don’t know where it came from. I would like to think that I am not just a sucker for schadenfreude and that instead the hysterics were partially the result of feeling out of place in the devout setting. Or partially because of the irony that “Emanuel” is also the name of my temple back home. Or maybe it was just an expression of pure immaturity. I really don’t know. Regardless, it was a jolly service indeed...