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...past two decades, trade liberalization and privatization of public enterprise has carried the day under a banner known as the Washington Consensus. NAFTA, the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the FTAA are among the institutions and frameworks designed to enshrine the Washington Consensus. Harold McGraw III, the chair of the Business Roundtable’s international trade and investment task force, cites World Bank estimates that the removal of trade barriers “could add $2,800 billion to the world economy by 2015, of which $1,500 billion would accrue to developing countries, lifting 320 million people...
...Foundation plans to hand Stephen King its Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Previous recipients of the medal include Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller and Toni Morrison, which makes King, an unrepentant horror monger, a controversial choice, to say the least. Shakespeare scholar and self-appointed canonmaker Harold Bloom called it a "terrible mistake" and added that King was an "immensely inadequate writer...
Other important speakers at the convention included Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank and Tennessee Representative Harold Ford...
...sponsored by the Office for the Arts’ Learning From Performers program for visiting artists, Zwick’s visit concluded the following day with an appearance at Professor of Japanese History Harold Bolitho’s Literature and Arts C-42, “Constructing the Samurai...
...proof of their obstinate behavior, I recall an article from the Cornell Daily Sun that ran nearly 18 months ago. According to the article, Princeton football coach Roger Hughes had an interview with outgoing Princeton President Harold T. Shapiro. In that interview, Shapiro told Hughes that there was no logical reason for the postseason ban and that the presidents just didn’t want Ivy League teams participating. It seems the presidents gave the Ivy playoff decision about as much thought as whether to have steak, pheasant or duck for lunch...