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...course, the cost of having an intellectually-engaged president is that occasionally he will emit ideas that are politically offensive or, in some cases, just plain wrong. After all, as Karl Popper taught us, providing refutable hypotheses is at the very core of scientific progress. I would hesitate to count the number of incorrect hypotheses that I come up with in the course of a year. Luckily, I have colleagues and students who point out my errors. If we are to have a scholar-president, we must treat his false hypotheses in the same way that we treat the false...
...Karl Marx once wrote that "the worker becomes an ever-cheaper commodity the more commodities he creates." His observation was published 160 years ago, but it's an accurate commentary on the plight of millions of Chinese like Chen Suo, a 16-year-old assembly-line worker at shoe manufacturer Stella International located in the southern city of Dongguan in Guangdong province. Chen returned to her home in Shaanxi province in disgrace earlier this month after spending eight months in jail for participating in a labor protest that turned violent. "I wasn't thinking of breaking things or blowing things...
...erected barriers between the U.S. and the rest of the world by unilaterally implementing his policies on Iraq and other global issues, with alarming consequences. At some future time, Americans will wake up to a cold, even hostile world, and no amount of spin from a political strategist like Karl Rove will be able to explain it away. Colin Wakefield Johannesburg My reaction to your choice of president Bush as Person of the Year went from revulsion to amazement to the realization that there was no alternative. This man has shaped the world for four years and-for better...
DIED. ROBERT HEILBRONER, 85, refreshingly accessible economics historian whose 1953 book, The Worldly Philosophers, remains the country's second best-selling economics textbook (after Paul Samuelson's Economics); in New York City. In some 20 books, he brought to life the ideas of such thinkers as Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes, emphasizing that economics needed to be examined in a global context. "I'm really not an economist," he said. "I bring an economic point of view to social and political problems...
...investment decisions is better than one that doesn't. He also believes that even if young people aren't quite sure about personal investment accounts now--in last week's TIME poll, those under 34 had mixed feelings about the idea--they'll love them in years to come. Karl Rove's dream is that this generation will eventually feel the same allegiance to Bush and the Republican Party that their grandparents felt for F.D.R. and the Democrats. And beyond the politics and ideology, there is the President's style: Bush loves bold. He sneers at small, is annoyed...