Word: hayek
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...pounds, the team is excited about the return of junior Kevin El-Hayek who took a leave of absence last year. He will be joined by junior Brandon Rhoades, who did a terrific job at 125 last year, and sophomore David Germakian...
...explained her support for Democrats over Republicans by way of her study of the definition of those two words in the dictionary. Her line that she found "Republican" right between "reptile" and "repugnant" was a an easy crowd-pleaser, but seemed oddly incongruous in the new Lieberman era. Salma Hayek was so enthused with saying "Al Gore rocks!" that she walked offstage forgetting to introduce the next act, and had to dash back to announce Jon Bon Jovi. Perhaps the most enthusiastically received line of the night came from the boyish Matt Damon who equated George Bush with Fredo from...
...guest list was mind-boggling: Hollywoodites Michael Douglas, Salma Hayek, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, Kim Cattrall of "Sex and the City," Richard Dreyfuss, Christine Lahti, Melissa Joan Hart, Heather Donahue, Sharon Lawrence, Griffin Dunne, Ron Silver, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino, Bianca Jagger, Joe Piscopo, Camryn Manheim, Mila Jovovich, Ray Liotta and half the cast of "The West Wing," who rushed over from the Warner Bros. set after taping their show. Real politicos on hand included Donna Shalala (how she loved the celebs!), Chris Cuomo, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Barbara Boxer, Lynda Bird Johnson and Chuck Robb, the Kennedys...
...Although we do lose our seniors, both Fran Volpe and Kevin El-Hayek will return from their year off, and we are bringing in another outstanding recruiting class," Weiss said. "I am thrilled with the performance of the younger guys this past year and look forward to watching them do even more damage next season...
There is one basic explanation for this. As the libertarian economist Friedrich von Hayek once pointed out, the bulk of information generated in any economy is local in nature. If this local information has to be processed through a centralized hier- archy--whether government ministry or even overly large corporate bureaucracy--it will inevitably be delayed, distorted and manipulated in ways that would not happen in a more decentralized economic-decision-making system. The U.S.S.R. used to have an office called the State Committee on Prices, where a few hundred bureaucrats would sit around setting every price in the Soviet...