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...that almost every American--whether it's through his pension or her business or his 401(k)--is deeply affected by failures in the banking system. Time has been telling this story for the past several weeks, and in this issue, the cover story by the acclaimed historian Niall Ferguson puts the current crisis in historical, financial and global perspective. As Ferguson shows, there are similarities to the Depression of the 1930s, but history can also be a guide to avoiding another...
...York City what seemed like an interesting white paper, “The Research Library in the Digital Age.” It was written by Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer university professor and director of the Harvard University Library, and was forwarded to me by Frances D. Ferguson, chair of the Overseas Committee to Visit the University Library...
...Even such an unquestionably eminent Harvard historian and colleague of Professor Darnton as Niall Ferguson, has been accused of serving as an apologist for Western hegemony and the British Empire as well as American involvement in Iraq...
...Otis Ferguson, one of the earliest film critics to create a coherent and eloquent body of work, was reviewing for the New Republic. "When Ferguson went off to the Coast Guard at the beginning of the war and was destroyed by a Nazi bomb, I immediately wrote a letter to the editor saying that I could do the job very well." He recommended himself for the film job over art criticism because, "doing movies, I would be in print every week. Doing painting I would be in once a month. I was getting $40 or $50 an article and that...
...Manny allowed that, yes, he might be thought of as one of the 10 best film critics... Always competitive, and this time underestimating his worth. (A quick list of nine others, without overthinking it, but just going by the gut feeling of folks whose writing makes me jealous: Ferguson, Agee, Robert Warshow, Sarris, Kael, Richard T. Jameson, J. Hoberman - the best weekly film critic today, and the one who drank deepest at the Farber font - and, of the new guys, Ed Gonzalez, and honorary adoptive American, David Thomson...