Word: economists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...photograph of Tides and endless speculation of roommate tensions, have cast a nasty pallor over the University community. There were two other suicides in Dunster House this year, and another in Kirkland House. In March, a Harvard Square bank was robbed in broad daylight and resulted in what The Economist called a "shoot-out at high noon...
Sure, it's been an unusual year, but The Economist doesn't think we have to consider it any further, because, after all, we're "America's oldest and richest...with more name-recognition and cachet than almost any other American college." The Economist seems so dazzled by our greatness that the University could be at ground-zero in a nuclear attack and still be held high on a pedestal, the mere notion of Harvard vindicated against its reality...
That attitude suggests falsely that out wealth and stature shield us from the concerns of the world around us. The Economist launches into an inexplicable picture-book hard-sell of Harvard: its $6.2 billion endowment with plans to raise $2.1 billion more; its annual budget, about the size the Nicaragua's GDP; its irresistible money-powered magnetism for stealing scholars like Henry Louis Gates form Duke and Cornel West from Princeton; its well-funded research in the hard sciences and renovations of the Yard; its perpetually high national rankings. In excited summary, The Economist raves; "the results are splendid...
...seems that money, the logical preoccupation of this magazine, has blinded it to some of the lessons we might learn from our annus horribilis. In its self-congratulatory complacency, The Economist's article sounds in tone entirely too Harvard: that despite a devastating year, we can still rest comfortably on our laurels, unshaken by the collapse of things around...
...same way, The Economist'sdismissive take on how Harvard should brush off its bad year and get on how Harvard should brush...