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Many students have been baptized into economics by Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61 or Freed Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, who currently teaches Social Analysis 10: “Principles of Economics,” better known as Ec 10, the introductory course in economics that is one of the most popular courses at the College. But even those who have never crowded into Sanders Theater each year for an Ec 10 lecture often use terms taken from economics jargon...
...problem of racism in American discourse is typified by the N-word outburst of comedian Michael Richards followed by his abject apology, the French variant is altogether more toxic. The latest outrage came from second-string TV personality and self-appointed social commentator Pascal Sevran, whose recently published book included the obscenely racist idea that the "black [penis] is responsible for famine in Africa." Elaborating in a newspaper interview, Sevran said, "Africa is dying from all the children born there" to parents supposedly too sexually undisciplined or dumb to realize they could not feed them all. The answer...
Lowell House economics advisor John N. Friedman said he thought that House advisers should not have trouble shouldering the increased responsibility...
...infectious organisms. In a collaborative effort among members of Harvard Medical School and Draper Laboratory, scientists are developing SP technology that would enable researchers to detect the movement of a single poliovirus through an artificial cell membrane. The new technology could act as a vaccine development tool, said Dale N. Larson, Harvard Medical School Director of the Technology and Engineering Center. The new system would make the production of new drugs cheaper and more effective by allowing researchers and pharmaceutical companies to observe the effects of new drugs early on in the expensive drug development process, Larson said. The Defense...
...Iraq, little of the government appears salvageable even in the eyes of leaders like Muttlag who are staking their careers, and sometimes their lives, on the eventual success of a civilian government. With so little material left to work with in Baghdad, many in Iraq are looking to Washingto n for a bold political stroke that would sweep the sitting government from power as more U.S. troops roll...