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What was it like interviewing the relatives and colleagues of some of these inventors? I talked to the daughter of John Weilgart, who made a "space language" of symbols that he supposedly got from aliens. That was painful in the sense that he devoted his life to this project and he was only ever mocked for it. I didn't want to necessarily contribute to the mocking, so I tried to understand the motivations and the struggle that a person like that would go through...
...think a souped-up version would be an interesting exercise to do on a routine basis," says John Irons, research and policy director at the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute think tank. "I could imagine in good times that this type of stress test could remind people not to get caught up in the irrational exuberance of bank booms." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...actualities of university study today - notes and exams are taken on computers. Grading and advice to students could easily be done via the Internet, and the cost per student would be reduced dramatically. The social-policy aim is the creation of educated individuals. The technology isn't important. John Leone, SAN DIEGO...
...there may be more to come. Sondheim's "nibbling" at a couple of new shows with his two longtime collaborators, John Weidman and James Lapine, and is writing an annotated retrospective of his lyrics. But breaking fresh ground can be hard going, says Sondheim, whose latest work, Road Show - based on the lives of huckster brothers behind Florida's ill-fated 1920s real-estate boom - was more than a decade in the making. "You think every time you pick up your pencil it's going to be a little bit easier, but it isn't," he says...
...uses both internal and external managers, as well as international private equity funds, to oversee its emerging market equity, and listed as one policy change for the coming fiscal year “a need to think globally about asset allocation and investment alternatives.” University spokesman John D. Longbrake declined to comment on whether the increasing emphasis on emerging and foreign equity in the most recent SEC filings is indicative of a broader portfolio reallocation.—Staff writer Peter F. Zhu can be reached at pzhu@fas.harvard.edu...