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...aide to Ronald Reagan, he was both an intellectual and a savvy technocrat. Yet the economist could be stubborn. After persuading Bush to reverse himself to reduce the deficit?a move that deeply damaged voters' trust and one that Bush called his biggest mistake?Darman maintained the error was tactical; the plan had just been badly presented. "I'm a long-term idealist and short-term realist," he said. Darman was 64 and had leukemia...
Charles Darwin started wrestling with questions like this when he published his 1871 book The Descent of Man. Darwin granted that his readers might doubt that humans evolved from an ancestral ape. "Man differs so greatly in his mental power from all other animals, there must be some error in this conclusion," he wrote. But he argued that the difference between us and other animals was of degree, not of kind. That applied not just to our teeth and toes but also to our morals and minds. And even, he declared, to love...
January 18's staff editorial "McCain for Republican Nominee" stated that Leon Wisseltier was the author of a piece in The New Republic. In fact, the author's name is spelled Leon Wieseltier. The Crimson regrets the error...
Correction: Monday’s editorial “Dealing with the Kenyan Crisis” incorrectly stated that the Kenyan elections were held December 23. In fact, they were held December 27. The Crimson regrets the error...
...Pat’s been as good as anybody for us and had been consistent,” Amaker said. “We’re the type of team where we need everybody, and we don’t have a large margin of error. Certainly, not having one of our better players didn’t help us.”A week ago, the Crimson took a 47-26 lead into the half, but this time it entered the half down, 36-26. Despite several brief spurts in the second half, the deficit would never fall...