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...Status also drives us to shop. It's what motivates us to buy televisions larger than our neighbors', Compeau says. And as America grows more populated, we'll only feel more pressure to spend, says Elizabeth Goldsmith, a Florida State University professor of consumer economics. "A lot of it is watching what other people buy. The more crammed in we are, the more we watch each other...
...BRIAN M. GOLDSMITH...
...reporters who broke the domestic spy program story in December picked up Goldsmith awards for investigative journalism from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy yesterday evening. In their controversial story on the secret National Security Agency spying program, James Risen and Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times revealed that the Bush administration had used illegal wiretaps to monitor the nation’s phone lines for terrorist activity. The Bush administration has vehemently denied any wrongdoing in the matter. “[The Goldsmith Awards] encourage a more insightful, spirited debate about public policy...
...Goldsmith who pushed to disavow the famous 2002 memo justifying torture after it was leaked to The Washington Post in June 2004, according to the article. By the end of the summer, he had left the administration, and in November, he joined the faculty at Harvard Law School...
Despite media reports in January 2005 that Goldsmith had opposed the torture memos, his critics were not mollified. Bartholet told The Crimson then that “nothing makes it clear that [Goldsmith] was not involved in providing problematic legal advice...