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...left. Bill Clinton was a free trader in the 1990s; Hillary Clinton opposed the Dubai Ports deal and voted against the Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Act in the 2000s. "I think we've pushed too far in the direction of unfettered markets," says Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel-prizewinning economist who chaired Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. "Markets aren't perfect. They don't deal with security issues, for example. And though President Clinton tried to emphasize it, we didn't do enough to address the impact of globalization on the American middle class...
DIED. OWEN CHAMBERLAIN, 85, Nobel-prizewinning physicist at the University of California, Berkeley; in Berkeley, Calif. Chamberlain worked on the Manhattan Project and later apologized to the Japanese for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. In 1955, he and fellow Manhattan Project alum Emilio Segre identified the antiproton, the negatively charged mirror of the subatomic particle, a discovery that sparked still unresolved debates about the composition of the universe...
...nominated from Palestine, was an early favorite - before Hamas won the election. That reduces the chance you?ll be hearing this: "And the winner is? from the Terrorist?I mean Palestinian Authority?" So now the race is wide open. Las Vegas bettors favor Tsotsi, a South African fable (by Nobel laureate Athol Fugard) about a vicious thug who adopts an adorable infant. Two fact-based films have good intentions: Joyeux Noel, about the three-nation battlefield truce in World War I, and Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, a German film about the World War II activist tried and killed...
...fitting that the Wall Street Journal broke news of his resignation. Larry is the son of two economists, the nephew of two Nobel laureates in Economics, the former Chief Economist of the World Bank, and has a PhD in Economics himself. With such expertise, he would probably have advised students against their play for profit at tradesports.com, where some bet on his continued presence at Mass. Hall beyond June. He would have been right; it failed. Yet, the context of his resignation makes me uncaring about the fate of some of my friends’ lost dollars...
Asked yesterday whether a Nobel was on the horizon, Summers replied: “I do research and teaching for their own sake...