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...Daniel Benjamin, a graduate student who has been working with Laibson since his freshmen year as an undergraduate. “Economists have suspected that psychology may be important for a lot of economics, but it’s only recently that this kind of work has become the frontier of economic research...
...hemmed and hawed, and then refused to hand over the wanted men - who, in the meantime, had fled. At that point, an informant walked into the military garrison in Wana and said we think we know where these men are hiding, and they're not heavily armed. So, 400 Frontier Corpsmen set out in 13 trucks and 3 armored personnel carriers, but they were ambushed along the way by hundreds of Waziri tribesmen. It was a complete rout. The tribesmen killed about 22 government troops, and are holding hostage at least another 16. And many of the government troops escaped...
...wonderful mixture of being able to get to the very frontier of political theory in one breath and talk about my son and her family in the next,” Mansbridge said...
...they say that a bill to provide special pension relief to the major carriers (American, Delta and Northwest would be the main beneficiaries, along with United) is "selective subsidization" and "the worst form of intervention that wastes limited public funds and harms consumers." The CEOs of AirTran, America West, Frontier, JetBlue and Spirit airlines argue that the big carriers should not be given government help while they devote millions of dollars to undermining their lower-cost and lower-fare competitors. The CEOs cite as an example United's decision to spend money to repaint some of its planes and start...
...Morocco, on a pinchpenny budget of $6 million, Scorsese recreated a Palestine of sere deserts and balding meadows. He found actors whose faces, most of them, boast Semitic heritage; whose voices hold the raspy, urgent cadences of Brooklyn, Appalachia and other frontier outposts of working-class America. (Only Satan and the Romans speak with British accents...