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Originally here last year as a one-year visitor, Miron is now in the first year of a unique five-year contract...
...faculty had to go through the Harvard admissions process, Visiting Professor of Economics Jeffrey A. Miron would be the high school senior who eschewed safety schools to put all his eggs in Harvard’s basket...
...former chair of the economics department at Boston University (BU), Miron resigned from his tenured position across the Charles to take a non-tenured visiting professorship on this side of the river—with no guarantee of a permanent post...
...unusual, possibly foolhardy,” Miron says of his decision...
...Koresh and his followers heightened the melodrama, their ties with the outside world became irretrievably broken. "The adulation of this confined group works on this charismatic leader so that he in turn spirals into greater and greater paranoia," says Murray Miron, a psychologist who advised the FBI during the standoff. "He's playing a role that his followers have cast him in." In the end, Koresh and his flock may have magnified one another's needs. He looked to them to confirm his belief that he was God's appointed one, destined for a martyr's death. They looked...