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...committee, which will be chaired by Professor of Economics Lawrence Katz, is responsible for reporting to President-elect Lawrence H. Summers...
...reasonable balance that takes into account both the need for detailed study and the pressing nature of the issue. Important, though, is that the date comes after the end of President Neil L. Rudenstine’s administration. Though not formally involved in organizing the committee, President-elect Lawrence H. Summers should take the committee’s recommendations seriously. Its report will be non-binding, as should be expected, but for the administration to take heed the committee’s deliberations must be viewed as more than a mere exercise in counting heads...
Ameliorating this problem should be one of the first items on President-elect Lawrence H. Summers’ agenda. Summers has already announced an interest in greatly increasing the size of the Faculty during his term. During this process, Summers should make it a priority for the University to hire qualified minority Faculty members. Not only will a more diverse Faculty ensure that differing viewpoints are represented in the Faculty and the community at large, it will also make it much easier to find qualified minority House Masters...
Putnam, the president-elect of the American Political Science Foundation for 2001-2002, will join the NAS' ranks of a number of Nobel Prize winners, including Albert Einstein and James Watson...
With the collapse of crony capitalist regimes like the one in Indonesia, and as oligarchic nations like Mexico elect more democratic presidents, De Soto's timing is propitious. His Third World clients hope that property-title reform will especially benefit industries like clothing, auto parts and agriculture--where the foreign-trade potential for extralegal businesses is enormous. Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide wants to slice through medieval red tape and legalize his nation's extralegal assets, which amount to $5.2 billion--four times its legal assets. "We would," he says, "finally put our people in partnership with the system...