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...were working together years before they would ever publish anything in an economics journal. And their first steps on the path of academic stardom began on the east side of Harvard Yard...
...longer feel that “doing well” necessarily means continuing on to something that also bears an impressive label. Or that traveling the world to do something untraditional is time wasted. If Harvard has taught me anything, it is that we all must choose our own path towards meaning. Even if I falter in the pursuit of meaning, I know I will always have the tools and friendships I developed here to support me and help me regain confidence in myself. It seems appropriate to think to the example of a past student, for whom...
...speech to a meeting of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, McCain went beyond the issue of whether the legislation grants "amnesty" to illegal aliens - the focus of most of the conversative complaints - and stressed what he called the "humanitarian" reasons for reform. What critics deride as a "special path" to citizenship, he said in his speech, is special only in the sense that "it is harder, longer and more expensive than the path offered to those immigrants who come here legally." The Senator also went to unusual lengths to sympathetically portray the yearning for a better life among immigrants...
Angola is following a path that's painfully familiar among African oil states from Equatorial Guinea to Sudan. The pattern is this: well-connected businessmen and unscrupulous government officials grow impossibly rich, and the ruling élite uses its wealth and largesse to consolidate its own power. Much of this money is funneled into banks and assets abroad, while the majority of the population stagnates or even grows poorer...
...cynicism of his candidacy became almost embarrassing. He has flipped on immigration, to better suit the Mexican-fearing tendencies of a segment of the Republican base. He's against the comprehensive reform bill being considered by the Senate, and, of course, that's because the bill would offer a path to citizenship for the 12 million illegals currently in the country. A reporter asks, What would you do about them? Make them get in the back of the line. Would they have to leave the country to do that? Mumble mumble evasion. Would you be in favor of kicking them...