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Raines, like Clinton, went on to spend two years studying at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship...
Clinton and Reich met on an ocean liner in 1968, when they were on their way to study at Oxford University as Rhodes scholars. They grew closer after Reich, miserably seasick, opened his stateroom door to find Clinton standing there with chicken soup and crackers, determined to nurse him back to health. Ever since, the two, along with mutual friends from Oxford, have participated in an on-and-off, two-decade "conversation" about how America and its economy should be governed. "Bill has had all of my books inflicted on him," Reich says, "and has done me the honor...
...target him personally as a "self-promoter" and "pamphleteer" -- in part, no doubt, out of resentment of his productivity and fame. These chafe many economics professors because Reich, often described as an economist, does not hold a degree in that subject. He received his degrees at both Dartmouth and Oxford in interdisciplinary studies -- history, philosophy, politics, economics -- and earned a law degree from Yale. Despite * his decade of teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Reich is not a tenured professor; nor, friends say, has he sought that title. With characteristic wit, he pens some of his correspondence under...
...Dartmouth College. During the summers, he worked with inner-city youngsters, as an intern to Senator Robert Kennedy, as a campaign volunteer for Senator Eugene McCarthy. He met his future wife Clare Dalton, a Briton who now teaches law at Northeastern University in Boston, on his first day at Oxford. After returning from England and earning his law degree at Yale, Reich clerked for a federal appeals judge in Boston. He then worked for seven years in Washington, first as an assistant to Solicitor General Robert Bork, then at the Federal Trade Commission during the Carter Administration...
Most economists agree that the U.S. recovery is far weaker than the recent 2.7% GDP growth spurt indicates. "That was a nice number, but not sustainable," says Lea Tyler, manager of U.S. economic forecasting for Oxford Economics in Pennsylvania. The results included a temporary bulge in defense orders and a consumer shopping spree that blossomed in July but quickly faded in August. Moreover, Tyler said, the mild drop in unemployment from 7.5% in September to 7.4% reflected a shrinking labor force as students returned to the classroom and discouraged workers stopped looking for jobs...