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...Brigades - the name of the leftist extremists who were notorious in the 1970s and '80s for terrorist attacks - took responsibility for the killing. While there have been few leads in the Biagi case, his image and ideas have been touted by the government and industry leaders - noting that the economist had written that Italy had "Europe's worst labor market." Union leaders counter that in the days before his death, Biagi had encouraged the government to avoid a fight over Article 18. Berlusconi, who is on the defensive domestically for the first time since last spring's election, has called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marching In Place | 4/28/2002 | See Source »

This means, argues economist Sylvia Ann Hewlett in her new book, Creating a Life: Professional Women and the Quest for Children (Talk Miramax Books), that many ambitious young women who also hope to have kids are heading down a bad piece of road if they think they can spend a decade establishing their careers and wait until 35 or beyond to establish their families. Even as more couples than ever seek infertility treatment--the number of procedures performed jumped 27% between 1996 and 1998--doctors are learning that the most effective treatment may be prevention, which in this case means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making Time For A Baby | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

Many Russians hold politicians accountable for skinhead violence. "Why blame the kids?" asks Sergei Antonov, an unemployed Moscow economist in his early 40s. "Blame the government, which has condemned Russians to poverty while the blacks and foreigners are lording it over us." Today, most skinheads are still in their teens, warns Antonov, but soon "they'll take dominant positions as they become adults. You'll see their impact a decade later." In fact, their impact is already clear in Pushkin Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Russia, with Hate | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

Lawrence H. Summers juggled the roles of public intellectual and University president Saturday afternoon as he debated economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya K. Sen in the closing event of a star-studded Harvard convention on globalization...

Author: By David H. Gellis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summers Debates Nobel Laureate | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...decision is indeed sad for Harvard, but over the past few years I have watched most of my favorite women professors leave with a lot less fanfare and a far smaller outcry. Where was the series of front-page stories for Juliet Schor, an internationally-known economist who was beloved by her students, when she left for Boston College last year? Seyla Benhabib, one of the top feminist theorists in the country, defected to Yale, while other important and influential women were denied tenure or elected to depart upon seeing how low their chances were of obtaining...

Author: By Shauna L. Shames, | Title: We Need Women, Too | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

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