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...plays and movies, which suggest, actually, that left alone for three seconds, two people will screw each other over in really complicated ways that need to be figured out for hours after the play, over drinks and dinner. But he seemed to mean it. Mamet is reading so much (Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek) and writing even more (cartooning for the Huffington Post; blogging from the perspective of the main character in his new Broadway play, November; writing articles for magazines; composing essays about the theater) that he's like an increasingly efficient machine, his efforts all cleanly converted...
...MILTON S. GWIRTZMAN ’54 Bethesda, Md. April...
...Kargman has been a performer since her youth, and her ability to build complex characters springs from both her self-described “wild imagination” and her determined, artistic drive. She approached Harvard fresh from four years on the competitive forensics team at Milton Academy, where she was able to spend a year getting to know the characters she portrayed. When playing Teresa, for example, Kargman filled a notebook with personal details about the character’s life.“It was such a great foundation for me, in terms of learning to be able...
...report prepared by the Cambridge chapter of the NAACP criticized leaders of the system for having expectations that are “not high enough” for children. It is these low expectations, the report says, that explain why more black students in other districts—including Milton, Stoughton, and Waltham—scored proficient on last year’s exam.“It’s NOT terrific...It’s NOT a record of high expectations, of meeting our children’s potential, of commendable progress,” the report notes...
Economist Milton Friedman argued--and eventually convinced most of his colleagues--that it was the Fed's failure to keep enough dollars in circulation that made the Great Depression such a great disaster. No Federal Reserve chairman will ever let that happen again, so we probably shouldn't worry too much about bread lines and Hoovervilles in the near future. But the money supply is a blunt instrument, one that comes nowhere near addressing all of today's problems. "The issue is not one of liquidity but one of solvency," says Richard McGuire, a strategist at RBC Capital Markets...