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...usual amount of work done and then surfing the Net for fun. This is critical because accelerating productivity allows an economy to pick up the pace of growth without stoking inflation. If Blinder's fears are true, we're probably on a classic boom-bust path--and guess what, we've already had the boom. But if Americans are getting a lot more done, the good times will last. Just don't ask the economists how long...
...bites," he observes. True, alas. But what he lacks in snappiness he makes up in peppiness. Spouting acronyms while standing at a blackboard, he approaches the energy level of Robin Williams. He is British (an Oxford physics major), but to watch only his hands as he talks, you'd guess Italian. Five, six years ago, during his "evangelizing" phase, this relentless enthusiasm was what pushed the Web beyond critical mass...
Could you have been able to hear the sibling rivalry erupting between Harvard's Jason Keck and his senior brother of Princeton, Michael? Could you guess how much ribbing Jason had to take for an entire year when Michael's school ousted Harvard last year in this same playoffs...
That's good, I guess; no pain, no gain. But can I twitch through six more weeks of virtuous nibbling and meditation and moderate behavior? Will enlightenment and serenity finally make clear to me the meaning of "antioxidant"? One thing is sure: only the strong survive...
...himself is a mystery. Maybe, given his gift for aphorism, he's thinking about going out on the corporate lecture circuit. "There's enough people to shoot in the head without looking for it all the time," he tells Maas--words any manager could live by. Amen, I guess...