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Friedman, as much as anyone, stood athwart history and cried "Stop" as it seemed headed towards collectivism--only he did it with a masterly, genius-level grasp of mathematics, history and statistics. He proved, inasmuch as it can be proved, that free markets would not impoverish the poor but enrich them, would not ride roughshod over the downtrodden but would empower them. His work with the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile was widely reviled, but Chile is now the free-market powerhouse of the Andes and a democracy. These principles paid off for whole populations in South America, in Russia...
...problem is that while the U.S. and Britain tend to share an absolutist view of enrichment, their allies in Europe tend to be more ambivalent, and there's little support for that position beyond Western Europe. The U.N. consensus is that Iran should be required to satisfy concerns over its program, but not that it be prevented from ever exercising its right as a signatory to the NPT to enrich uranium under IAEA scrutiny...
Five years later, Yale’s discovery is set to enrich the university once again—and potentially entangle it in another ethical dilemma. Yale announced this past June that it had licensed a new-and-improved version of the d4T compound to Tokyo-based Oncolys BioPharma...
Their Saturday night cameo—just before a high school production of “Little Shop of Horrors”—was part of the student organization’s initiative to enrich the arts in local schools...
...administration,” said Charles J. Hamilton ’07, president of Harvard Black Men’s Forum, which uses money donated through the gift fund. “It really sends the implicit message that the administration is not supportive of student groups that positively enrich the community,” he added. Petersen said that 24 of Harvard’s older student groups have their own endowments managed by the Harvard Management Corporation and are thus not affected by the tax. “This exacerbates inequality among groups that arise from the historic...