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There is nothing magical or unique about capital gains. A special break for this particular form of investment profit distorts the free market in two ways. First, it prejudices the economy in favor of certain kinds of investment. Those who say we need to encourage entrepreneurs or long-term investors with this break (which actually would reserve few of its benefits for those charmed circles) are saying the Government can outguess the market about which investments will pay off. If a risky or long-term investment makes more sense than keeping money in a savings account, the market will reward...
...there is anything that moves me...it is that," he says. "One of the main functions of education is to find the answer to learn, to worry about, criticize and assess certain things, and not assume that we know the answer...
Having acquired a certain license, in my 40th year, to speak of the "younger generation," I must confess that all this rather severely depresses me. On the Harvard campus where I teach, for example, rarely, if ever, do I see the brazen, sap-running spectacle of a hand held, a partner embraced, a kiss tendered (wet or dry), and I cannot help but ask these high-flying, career-tracing, dollar-sniffing, supposedly "younger" persons of the passionate years (to quote someone from their generation, Tracy Chapman): "If not now...when...
Every generation, every culture, every human individual, it seems to me, earns their right to a certain epitaph--words that sum up, even without entirely describing, the values they stood for, the passions they honored, the choices they made. What saddens me about the generation The Boston Globe, and my own eyes, have so vividly observed and described is that theirs might not have to be these few lines of W.H. Auden's famous "New Year Letter," written on the eve of the Second World...
...hideous fashion. John Ducey adopts the physical mannerisms of an old fogey perfectly, and his General Arthur MacKenzie shambles from place to place in a manner that is both disconcerting (Ducey's mouth hangs open for much of his time on stage) and endearing (when he apologetically requests a certain seat because "that's where my chair is at the Club...