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Bonus: Name confusion anecdotes from Richard Freeman...
...Richard Freeman. But so is my apparent doppelganger, an economics professor who is some kind of celebrity in his department. Since we have the same names, though, people send me e-mails all the time that are really intended for him. The first time it happened I was invited to a conference in Vienna. And they were ready to pay me to go too. I told them that I’d love to go to Vienna, as long as it was okay that I totally made up whatever I had to say at the conference. They didn?...
...Cornell sometimes to make appearances at all kinds of events. Sometimes they e-mail me with instructions for my secretary. I tell them I don’t have a secretary, but it would be pretty cool if I did. The worst was last summer when the other Richard Freeman published some controversial article in The New York Times about workers in Ireland. I had all kinds of belligerent Irishmen e-mailing me. And then I got on some e-mail list with all of these U.S. senators, and I e-mailed the list to ask to be taken...
...Freeman and his friends never saw the exhibit of “Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons,” which featured cutting-edge work from the last 40 years, including a giant stainless-steel balloon dog and oversized furniture...
...hadn’t heard about any deals, but I just knew from past experiences that when you have a Harvard ID, you are allowed into the MFA for free,” Freeman said. “However, this was the first time I had gone to see a special show, so I just went assuming that my ID would get me in as it always...