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...person who has performed the "best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses," is determined by a five-member committee appointed by Norway's Parliament. Nominations are solicited from an undisclosed number of contributors--past winners, prominent institutions--and the winner is decided by a simple majority vote...
...past couple of years, though, economics hasn't been fun. It's been scary. The quirky topics in which Levitt specializes have been pushed aside by the big questions of how to halt a financial crisis and fix an ailing global economy. Macroeconomics has overwhelmed microeconomics. Not that the macroeconomists have exactly covered themselves with glory. Queen Elizabeth II wondered aloud late last year how economists had missed the problems that brought on the financial crisis. This September, economist Paul Krugman lamented "the profession's blindness to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy," unleashing a bitter...
These Cinemax-quality lyrics are sung in the anguished tone of radio-friendly modern rock over some pretty excellent guitar riffs. It's a recipe that works, at least commercially; a year after the release of their fourth album, Only by the Night, Kings of Leon have chugged past the million-sales mark and boast the No. 1 song on Top 40 radio ("Use Somebody"). They also have the best bandcreation story in memory. These facts are not unrelated...
...This past Saturday, the first ever Boston Book Festival was held in Copley Square, featuring authors and performers across all genres and art forms...
...little besides the Cambridge Public Schools. Kelley is a polarizing politician—often somewhat too dogmatic, even strangely eager to alienate his colleagues—but he does have a tendency to tell it like it is, and one thing he said has stuck with me for the past three and a half years: “If we can’t make public education work here,” he said, “there is no hope for public education in a diverse, urban environment anywhere...