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...University of North Carolina Government School and took the fall semester off to work as an intern and personal assistant to renowned Democratic political consultant and author, James Carville. Despite her time spent with Carville, however, Buckwalter has yet to master her marketing tactics and penchant for catchy phrases. Even the revamped SFC has failed to garner the amount of attention that now follows HRL. Though, not everyone wants that type of recognition.FETAL FIREPOWER“No publicity is bad publicity was HRL’s old motto,” Grizzle explains. Last semester, for example...
...DIED. John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, best-selling Harvard economist and unabashed liberal who spent his career fighting "conventional wisdom," a phrase he coined in 1958; in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At 203 cm tall, he was-quite literally-a big thinker. In his examination of the intertwining of economics and politics, he once termed America a "democracy of the fortunate," and his ideas underpinned U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program. He was known for his witty, often acerbic directness, once noting, "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." The concepts in his watershed book...
DIED. John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, best-selling Harvard economist and unabashed liberal who spent his career fighting "conventional wisdom," a phrase he coined in 1958; in Cambridge, Mass. At 6 ft. 8 in., he was--quite literally--a big thinker. In his examination of the intertwining of economics and politics, he once termed America a "democracy of the fortunate," and his ideas underpinned Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program. He was known for his witty, often acerbic directness, once noting, "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." The concepts in his watershed book, The Affluent...
...writing to second Charles Drummond’s tolerant perspective on the controversy surrounding sophomore novelist Kaavya Viswanathan (“Girl Interrupted,” comment, Apr. 26). If a few plot points and a borrowed phrase every 10 pages constitute “literary identity theft”, as Tuesday’s statement from Random House alleges, few authors will escape whipping. With Chaucer and Boccaccio, Shakespeare and Holinshead, Robert Johnson and Skip James, why not Viswanathan and McCafferty? Any literary omelet worth its salt is likely to contain a few borrowed eggs...
Shinagel recommended that the phrase “extention studies” be removed from the degrees of future Extension School graduates at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty Council—the highest governing body of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...