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...predictability in the economy.” However, while Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 understands this outlook, he stressed in an e-mailed statement that “it’s important to remember that there are worse things than 2 percent inflation, and from time to time we have them.” Miron also expressed less sympathy than others for the subprime lenders and borrowers, who he suggested are playing the roles of both perpetrator and victim in the current crisis. “The subprime event is not that...
Have you ever considered running for political office, as John Glenn did? -Edo Steinberg, BEERSHEBA, ISRAELYes, but the idea wasn't very attractive. Eighty percent of people thought I was doing the right thing during the Korean War shooting down MiG-15s, and probably 95% were supportive of the moon landing. Why risk such a career so that only 51% of people will tolerate me and 49% will want...
...What do you like to see? I stick with a lot of dramas and horror movies. I try to get the most obscure ones possible. I think about 70 or 80 percent of the films I saw last year haven't come out yet. And I go to one gala, just so I can be into the whole Festival vibe. I went to Babel (2006) and saw Brad Pitt...
...Percent decrease in global concern over terrorism since last year...
...extreme as DBS, those suffering from traumatic brain injury have few such options. Right now, from 100,000 to 300,000 Americans have suffered sufficient brain trauma to be classified as minimally conscious--a number that is growing as soldiers wounded by shrapnel come home from Iraq. Twenty percent of minimally conscious patients recover well enough to return to the community and resume their lives. Others never do. Still others drift at the functional margins, needing just a boost to cross the line into self-sufficiency...