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Allan Houston scored 31 points, Larry Johnson added 17 and John Starks 16 for the Knicks, who lost for the sixth time in seven games but kept this one close despite a rash of injuries...
James Allen Johnson's March 9 editorial on the virtues of capitalism was a hilarious but depressing example of what happens when gullible undergraduates apply the toys we are given in Social Analysis 10: "Principles of Economics" (Ec 10) to the real world. What is taught in Ec 10 has the dubious virtue of being very, very simple. As Johnson went to such offensive lengths to point out, "(a)nyone who has learned to spell the word economics should understand this theory...
Adherence to the Ec 10 model led Johnson to believe that protesters of Starbucks must be (inappropriately) expressing their "preference" for a different kind of coffee store. If he had bothered to ask the people outside the Starbucks in Central Square last weekend why they were protesting--something economists are usually too busy graphing abstractions to think of doing--he would have learned that not only were they denied an opportunity to express their preference for the affordable coffee shops that used to be there, but that Starbucks's arrival along with other up-scale retail developments, has raised rents...
Critics say Landmark is an elaborate marketing game that relies heavily on volunteers. Says Tom Johnson, an "exit counselor" often summoned by concerned parents to tend to alumni: "They tire your brain; they make you vulnerable." Says critic Liz Sumerlin: "The participants end up becoming recruiters. That's the whole purpose." Psychiatrists who speak on Landmark's behalf dispute these claims. But Sumerlin says a 1993 Forum turned her fiance (now her ex) into a robot. She organized an anti-Landmark hot line and publications clearinghouse. Landmark officials made sounds...
...story is told of the time Martin Luther King's widow Coretta Scott King was waiting to testify in a criminal case before Judge Norma Holloway Johnson. The judge sent a U.S. marshal to bring Mrs. King into the courtroom, but he returned alone, saying the civil rights matriarch needed another 10 minutes to prepare herself. Johnson, jabbing her finger in the air, responded quickly: "Martin, I'd give another 10 minutes. Her, I want here right...