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...Nonetheless, in an interview last month, Martin Nisenholtz, who oversees the far-flung digital operations of the New York Times, said the Kindle has been a "surprisingly successful" platform for his newspaper. "There's not a lot of evidence right now that people view the PC as the device they want to read on," he said. "And that's interesting because the PC is a general-interest device - we had hoped to see a little bit more of an uptake on that. On the other hand, we've seen a tremendous amount of uptake on the Kindle. It just works...
Economics professor Martin S. Feldstein ’61, President of the Harvard Board of Overseers Roger W. Ferguson Jr. ’73, and Penny S. Pritzker ’81, a former Overseer, were named as advisors to president Barack Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board in a press conference held in Washington on Friday. Feldstein, a former Reagan administration economist, served as President of the National Bureau of Economic Research from 1977 to 2008. NBER studies the U.S. economy and is the well-respected authority on markers of recessions. Ferguson was the vice-chairman...
...year-old freshman at Boston University, DuBois - armed with a placard inscribed with the words "NO MORE" - stood before a Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial in Boston for 41 hours as a way to commemorate the 41 bullets New York City policemen used to kill unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo...
Stripped of his tuxedo, Aston Martin, and martini, the newest James Bond still maintains an heroic persona in his latest film, “Defiance.” While the movie’s Holocaust setting might arouse the expectation of another horrifying display of Nazi actions (as in “Schindler’s List), director Edward Zwick ’74 (“The Last Samurai,” “Blood Diamond”) surprises the audience by examining the Holocaust from an original angle. In a story of survival, Daniel Craig...
...Martin Feldstein, the conservative economist who has been advising the White House as well as Hill Democrats and Republicans, was an early advocate for the stimulus but turned on the bill the House produced. He says the Senate bill, unveiled on Tuesday, is equally wasteful. "[Obama's team] turned it over to the congressional staffs," Feldstein says, and the result is that the bill spends like Congress always spends: with an eye to benefiting regional constituents. The problem, he contends, is that the bill's goal is to boost overall national spending, which is a very different thing...