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...deputy prime minister, he oversaw foreign affairs, education, and culture in Thailand. He held the position for only one year before the government was overthrown by a coup d’état last fall. Kriengsak Chareonwongsak, a member of the Thai parliament who is currently a Mason fellow at the Kennedy School, said that Sathirathai played a “much more substantial role in the government” as minister of foreign affairs, a position he held from February 2001 to March 2005. Chareonwongsak also praised Sathirathai for his diplomatic skills and his tirelessness in traveling...
...second in the 1650-yard freestyle and also gained fourth-place finishes in the 500-yard and 1000-yard freestyles. Junior Luke Sanders took first and sixth place in the one- and six-meter dives, respectively. Junior Pat Quinn, sophomores David Guernsey, Bill Jones and Dan Jones, and freshmen Mason Brunnick and Alex Meyer also gave solid performances to gain points for the Crimson. Despite these strong results, the Crimson could not overtake the dominant Tigers, even after a close third day. Harvard was also hurt by a costly disqualification in the 200-yard medley relay, which it was leading...
Meet Nathanael G. Mason. His clipped British accent may throw you for a loop. No, he’s not a redcoat who eschewed the Oxbridge system for a Harvard education. He’s actually French—from Annecy, a small town in the Alps near Geneva. And he’s one of the two students from L’Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (dubbed Sciences Po) on campus this semester. But Mason isn’t your average visiting student. He’s an exchange student. And the difference...
...supposed rise of inequality in contemporary America is overblown. As argued by Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University, much of it can be attributed to demographic trends. Simply put, as populations get older, they tend to display higher variation in income. Most of the rest of the increase in inequality is a result of increasing returns on education and skill. In other words, to raise wages, activists would be better off with neo-Luddite machine sabotage than with unions, because structural factors in the economy—globalization and technological change—are responsible for unequal...
...that they can't. "If you can force the rest of the country to send you money or go to jail, it does wonders for your economy," says northern Virginia writer and noted urban thinker Joel Garreau. Stephen Fuller, who runs the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University in Fairfax, puts it more gently: "It's nice to have a rich uncle...