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...love Larry but he is not a model of humility,” Rubin said citing his surprise that Summers had been so humbled...
...America Can Keep Manufacturing More than 2 million manufacturing jobs have been lost in the U.S. But a new model of the American factory is emerging. Meet a group of creative companies that are redefining what it takes to be Made in America
...last year. Six of those youngsters chose to drop out rather than repeat the grade. Retention was a problem even before the tougher standards went into effect. Only 23 of the 40 students in the school's first entering class are still there. "SEED looks like a very innovative model, but it is too early to tell," says Nina Rees, a U.S. Department of Education official who studies charter schools. And SEED is expensive. Because of the extra cost of housing students, SEED spends about $24,000 per student, more than double the allotment for the typical D.C. public school...
...starving the beast supposed to work? Let's create a simple model, in which every dollar of a tax cut leads to some fraction of a dollar in spending cuts. The trouble is that when you starve the beast by cutting taxes, you also increase the national debt and the bill for interest on that debt. So the first thing that happens is that you increase government spending. From then on, it's a battle between the lingering effects of the tax cut and the ever growing impact of compound interest on the added borrowing...
From Milan boardrooms to Parma dairy farms, Calisto Tanzi was long viewed as a model Italian entrepreneur--modest, hardworking and, above all, generous. Over four decades, as he built Parmalat, the food company he founded in Parma in 1961, into a worldwide giant with annual sales of $9.6 billion, he showered the town with his philanthropy. A pious Catholic, Tanzi helped pay for a major restoration of Parma's 11th century basilica. He poured cash into the local pro-soccer team, restored the theater and financed programs for the poor, AIDS patients and drug addicts. "He has got that impulse...