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...Staff writer Virginia A. Fisher can be reached at vafisher@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Anna M. Friedman can be reached at amfriedm@fas.harvard.edu...
...hitter Matt Brunnig to trim the NU lead back to three. Wilson was gunned down at home to end the threat, sliding into the wallow around the plate after a shallow single by eventual winning pitcher Taylor Meehan (1-1). In fact, the dirt areas of the mostly-turf Friedman Diamond—the batter’s boxes and the mound—required constant maintenance, much to the chagrin of the benches and the grounds crew alike, throughout the soggy afternoon. “It’s huge,” Brown said. “Especially...
...What libertarians do is give free range to marketplace morality, which is, as Friedman explains, “whatever…interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue.” Here the Mackey-types emerge, coming from a Twilight Zone where a love of fair trade and free markets converge. Supporting fair trade coffee and hating taxes are not contradictory attitudes. When an individual buys fair trade, he voluntarily chooses to pay higher prices to support sustainable agriculture in small cooperatives in developing countries. When taxed, however, citizens are powerless to prevent corporate subsidies from being...
...Sure, most of them have read Ayn Rand’s novels—perhaps even briefly fell in love with Objectivism—but, like everyone else, they realized that they were being callous pricks and soon thereafter forgot about Howard Roark. Nevertheless, what is common from Milton Friedman to John Mackey is a fervent, but tempered belief in individual choice. Importantly, liberty does not have to come at the expense of society’s plunge into an anarchic abyss; few libertarians would defend the choice of an industry to discard toxic chemicals into a river...
...Sunday meals and training for the homeless. But, he added, volunteering to assist the homeless is the best way to spread understanding of their situation. “You get to understand that these are real people,” he said. —Staff writer Anna M. Friedman can be reached at amfriedm@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Shifra B. Mincer can be reached at smincer@fas.harvard.edu...