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...Israelis thought their siege of Gaza might break Palestinian support for Hamas, they were wrong. It has only made Palestinians angrier and more desperate. Says Gaza resident Omar Shabani, an economist: "My kids ask me why the Israelis are doing this to us, and I can't answer them. I don't want to increase their hatred toward Israel, but the truth is, the Israelis are doing everything to make us hate them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gaza: No Doves in Sight | 10/8/2006 | See Source »

...lying, morally bankrupt, political class that is completely disengaged from reality? Who would have thought. Although some, including the venerable Economist, argue that this crisis reflects a specifically Hungarian problem, the magazine’s own words seem applicable to almost the entirety of modern liberal democracy as it describes “collective denial, inside and outside the country, about the need for reform.” The magazine additionally notes that vitally, and obviously, necessary austerity measures were postponed time and time again because of politicians’ fears that they would turn out to be unpopular with...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis | Title: Lessons from Budapest | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...study was conducted by Pinka Chatterji, an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and a health economist at the Center for Multicultural Mental Health Research, and Jeffrey S. DeSimone, an assistant professor of economics at the University of South Florida...

Author: By William M. Goldsmith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: Boozers Aren’t Losers In Earnings | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

Dean of the Social Sciences David Cutler '87. an economist, agreed. “I doubt it’s causal; it could be a selection issue. Students who binge drink in college could be more popular; popularity carries over to the labor market,” Cutler said...

Author: By William M. Goldsmith, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Study: Boozers Aren’t Losers In Earnings | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

...Getting the country where it is now has taken guts, though. "Back in 1991, there was no money, no food, no nothing," says noted Kazakhstan economist Rakhman Alshanov, a mastermind behind the early 1990s liberal economic reforms. Nazarbayev had to rule by decree. He twice dissolved the Parliament, and gave reformers the latitude to abruptly terminate the state's paternalistic support of industry as well as collective and state farms. "No more injections into a wooden leg - no more credits to big state-run industries," Alshanov explains. The message was straightforward: earn or else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kazakhstan Comes On Strong | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

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