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Like our next president, Rosovsky was an economist by training, and so tends to think of interests in influence in those terms. He does defend the infamous aphorism, in a slightly different form: Rosovsky claims universities cannot and must not be democracies. As the greatest number of people are students spending the shortest amount of time here, their desires must be seen in that light, and permanence—tenure, a long degree program, a long record as an employee—must trump the energetic whim of the student body...
...group of Harvard academics has proposed a treatment and prevention program - run by an international organization like the U.N. and funded by the the developed countries - that would buy AIDS drugs from major pharmaceuticals at deep discounts. Jeffrey Sachs, the economist who headed the study, says the initial cost for such a program would top $1 billion a year and would climb to $3 billion annually within five years; by comparison, Sachs says total annual U.S. aid to sub-Saharan African during the 1990s averaged just $150 million. But, Sachs points out, America's gross national product...
...maybe Asia's Eurasian craze is driven by the theories of that whitest of white men, economist Adam Smith. As the world gets smaller, we look for a global marketing mien, a one-size-fits-all face that helps us sell Nokia cell phones and Palmolive shampoo across the world. "For any business, you can't think locally anymore," says Paul Lau, general manager at Elite Model Management in Hong Kong, who has built up a stable of Eurasians for his internationally minded clients. "At the very least, you need to think regionally. Ideally, you should think globally." A global...
...That too, however, required political will. On that topic, the most skeptical panelist was the dean of U.S. economic experts on Brazil, Albert Fishlow, senior economist at the investment firm Violy, Byorum & Partners and head of the Center for the Study of Brazil at Columbia University in New York City. While Brazil has committed itself to the FTAA process, he said, there are few grounds for assuming that the country will be interested in speeding up the trade negotiations. Brazil is scheduled to preside with the U.S. over FTAA trade meetings in 2003 and 2004, so Brazilian officials...
...certainly a worthy candidate to deliver a graduation speech. Yet we are concerned that, through no fault of his own, Rubin’s speech may be regarded by many seniors as simply more of the same. When giving his address this June, Rubin will follow Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen and Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, two speakers whose major interests have similarly been economic...