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...Stein wrote an over-the-top, utterly misguided eulogy for economist Milton Friedman [Nov. 27]. Friedman thought that freedom comes primarily from laissez-faire capitalism, meaning government should leave business alone. This concept was useful at the time of the American Revolution but is surely anachronistic now. Even Adam Smith said that when men of the same trade meet they conspire against the public. Friedman's thinking provides a rationalization for government to turn business loose and empower it to monopolize the market, exploit the consumer and pollute the environment. HARRY L. COOK Ashland...
...Crimson Arts Staff's General Best Of... Five CDS I Only Pretended to Like Bad Movies that Tried Embarrassingly Hard for Our Praise and Got It Top Five Finals Period Might-be-most Played Top Ten Country Music Lyrics Top Five Thomas Friedman-isms Best Musical Feuds of 2006 Five Worst Pieces of Art at Harvard Best 'Project Runway' Moments Five 'Best' Moments in the Rocky Series Top Five Movies of 2006 that I Want to Wear Five Shows That Should Not be Performed at Harvard Ten Fashion Trends to Avoid
...heart Thomas L. Friedman. I mean, the guy’s completely full of crap 87% of the time, but his writing style has basically changed my life. Dave Eggers can go suck a dong—Tommy Friedman has the most interesting narrative voice in print today. You know why? Because, like all good fairy-tale children’s-book writers, he understands the power of repetition. So, without further ado, here are my top 5 favorite Thomas L. Friedman tropes of 2006. 5. Exclamation Points! Tommy travels a lot. He talks to “entrepreneurs?...
...John Barrett, the principal of Farmington High School, is a fervent disciple of the theories espoused in Thomas Friedman's book, The World Is Flat, about vanishing U.S. economic supremacy on the now-level global playing field, and he worries that complacent Americans are perilously close to sliding off the edge. He distributed copies of the book to teachers last spring and made it the sole topic for discussion at the first faculty meeting this fall. To build a less xenophobic student body, students are served a steady diet of internationally focused programs and projects...
...Although the school's college placement record is impressive-77% of last year's senior class enrolled in four-year colleges- Barrett says the Friedman book's admonitions led to the decision this fall to "kick up the level of rigor" in the curriculum even more. "It becomes more apparent the deeper you get into the book that what we used to consider third world countries are now outdistancing us in terms of research and, more than anything, work ethic," he says. "I want our kids to realize they're not just competing with the kid next to them...