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...MOVIE I've Loved You So Long From The English Patient to Gosford Park, Kristin Scott Thomas has oozed aristocracy. In Philippe Claudel's French drama, she occupies a private palace of pain as an ex-con reuniting with her sister (Elsa Zylberstein). This fine rehab film has a long fuse and a potent payoff...
Friedman wasn't a Keynesian at all. He distrusted government and didn't believe that bureaucrats could fine-tune the economy for long. His student Lucas offered another criticism: for Keynesian fiscal policy to work, taxpayers had to be awfully shortsighted. Otherwise, they'd see that deficit-financed tax cuts or government spending would eventually have to be paid for, and they'd set money aside for that rainy day--thus counteracting the stimulus...
...control inflation of the 1970s wreaked havoc with Keynesian fine-tuning and seemed to confirm the criticisms of Lucas and Friedman. But their victory was never complete. The U.S. economic boom of the 1980s was at least partly the result of deficit spending. As financial crises battered much of the world in the 1990s, governments turned to tools devised by Keynes simply because other approaches didn't work. And behavioral economic research has since shown that most humans are awfully shortsighted...
...They're not going to shoot us; it's not Iraq. We might have to pay a fine and serve a little time in jail.' TED STEVENS, Alaska Senator, caught on a taped phone conversation played during his corruption trial...
...forth. It was weird.” Disgruntled students on the shuttle often take their anger out on fellow passengers. “Once, the shuttle was really hot, so my friends and I asked this girl to open the window and she was like ‘ugh fine,’ and opened it,” says Tobey H. Duble ’10, a Currier resident. “Then when we weren’t looking she would shut it just to spite us.” Duble adds, “Also someone puked...