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Nobody really forgets about the tourists. Rather, John Harvard’s adoring visitors endow the ritual with meaning. Harvard students do not pee on the statue in spite of its significance. They pee on the statue because of its significance. Urinating on the monument to higher education in America...
Ben Stein wrote an over-the-top, utterly misguided eulogy for economist Milton Friedman [Nov. 27]. Friedman thought that freedom comes primarily from laissez-faire capitalism, meaning government should leave business alone. This concept was useful at the time of the American Revolution but is surely anachronistic now. Even Adam...
2. Happiness Matthieu Ricard Lottery winners, researchers have found, are no happier a year after their windfall than they were before it (they've bought a house too big for them, they don't know who their friends are anymore, they spend all their time with lawyers). Those who are...
Some players catch fire, but it’s often fleeting. Some players, like Seymore, simply give new meaning to the popular NBA Showtime phrase, "he’s on fire!"
Before leaving Washington, Paulson did his best to downplay expectations from the grandly named "Strategic Economic Dialogue" his delegation will conduct with the Chinese. There would be no big announcement after the two days of talks, Paulson told one interviewer, stressing that this was the start of a "long-term...