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...night to be “radically individualistic,” while his colleague, legal scholar Lani Guinier, cautioned students against “selling out your soul” to self-interest. The two Law School faculty members, both black, joined a historian, a business professor, and an economist at a roundtable sponsored by the Black Law Students Association (BLSA) at which the scholars debated the notion of “acting white.” Kennedy, who is the Klein professor of law, said, “I think people need to work themselves free not only...
Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously said that “there’s no such thing as a free lunch,” but for students who earned the highest mark in the course last semester, there was a free mid-afternoon snack...
...Summers partisans suppose. The very premise of divestment, from Israel or any other entity, operates on the delusion of “clean money=clean mind,” and betrays a deluxe disregard for the way capital moves and shakes in globalization. It would have been useful if economists at Harvard could explain the solipsistic futility of divestment in economic terms, rather than parsing constructed distinctions between alleged bigotries of “intent” versus “effect.” It would have been useful if University leaders could explain that the complex situation...
...importance of the fast-growing ready-to-wear suit business and develop assembly systems that would allow Brioni to make more suits in fewer hours without abandoning the company's signature hand detailing. Brioni introduced a line of off-the-rack suits in 1960. Angeloni, who trained as an economist and married into one of the families that own Brioni, took over in 1990. He has pushed to transform Brioni into a lifestyle brand by adding women's wear and accessories. "Artisans continue to offer bespoke tailoring, but we are the only international lifestyle brand to offer the service...
Early in the meeting, Schmid read a statement chastising his colleagues for departing from “norms of civility” in recent weeks. “Most disturbingly, [economist] Edward Glaeser, [law professor] Alan Dershowitz, and Ruth Wisse have insinuated anti-Semitism,” Schmid said, according to a copy of his remarks that he gave to The Crimson...