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...June 14, 1954 Business School officials received an anonymous tip that Ann and Ray Ginger might be called before the Massachusetts Commission to Investigate Communism...
...says the payment came with a stringent condition attached: Ray would get his salary if the Gingers left Massachusetts immediately. That way, the two would never be called before the Massachusetts Commission to Investigate Communism, and Harvard could avoid a messy public investigation...
...happened once before in our time: the years 1983 to 1989 marked the greatest peacetime economic expansion to that point in all of U.S. history. President Reagan took steps that encouraged growth, and while the American people produced it, he directed the rollback of communism, the fall of the Wall. By the end, an amazing thing: a more just and peaceful world, with America known not as a bully but as a friend to freedom in the world...
...nunneries because they were prisons and nunneries, the difference being that the prisons meant to keep sinners in, whereas the Utopian buildings aimed to keep them out. But the same grim coerciveness suffused both, as we know from their ultimate state forms in the 20th century: Nazism and communism...
Since the collapse of Communism, capitalism has had an uneven triumph in the republics of Central and Eastern Europe. In the Czech Republic, which became an independent nation in 1993 after Slovakia broke away, not much changed for years, despite partial privatization of state enterprises. State-owned banks, very slow to privatize, doled out credit without much supervision, and old-fashioned state enterprises dominated the wheezing economy. One result: a three-year contraction of GDP from 1997 through...