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Historian David Blackbourn introduces you to Max Weber, the German founder of sociology. Learn what your “life chances” are (and be grateful that a Harvard diploma boosts your “social status”). Even if you aren’t fascinated by the three-component theory of social stratification, you might feel like a genius throughout the semester if you manage to interpret Weber’s work; and that just might be worth the effort...
...screen to wider audiences this year because anybody who couldn't make the trek to Park City - or score tickets once they got there - could download nearly half of Sundance's 71 competing shorts at Apple's iTunes Store for just $1.99 a piece. Films for sale include the German motorcycling documentary Motodrom and High Falls, a relationship drama starring real-life couple Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. That's not a bad deal to discover the next Wes Anderson, Spike Jonze or Alexander Payne - all directors who started out with a Sundance short...
...TIME: Foreign affairs closer to home must be causing you concern: Your party tore itself apart over the European Union, and now the nightmare is returning, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel trying to revive the EU constitution. David Cameron: It shouldn't be a difficult issue for our party because it's an issue on which the Conservative Party now has a settled view, which is that we want to be in the European Union, but we want a flexible, open, trading union and we are opposed to further integration of the European Union. And it's a position that...
...later, to her more important, career as an ambassador and consciousness-raiser for UNICEF. She often spoke of her lifelong craving for affection and her need to give it. She knew both privilege and want, as a baroness' daughter who nearly starved in the Netherlands during the German occupation in World War II. You can see why Hepburn essentially retired from movies at 38 to care for her two sons, and why the starving children of Africa and Asia were kin to her. The photos of Audrey with the Somalian children show a woman nearly as thin as they...
...what’s the right distribution of income.’”Contrary to trends in his field, Musgrave “probably moved a bit in the direction of thinking there was an activist role of government,” Poterba said.The German school of thought— “thinking about the whole community almost as though it was one actor”—was another influence that Musgrave brought to bear on U.S. economic thinking, Poterba said.“That was a perspective that was somewhat different from what most...