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...point here isn't that Smith was right in every last one of his prescriptions and proscriptions. He was an 18th century Scottish scholar, not an all-knowing being. Many of his apparent self-contradictions are just that - contradictions that don't make a lot of sense. (See the best business deals...
...McAuley somewhat bitterly assumes that rich students are “insulting” the rest of us when they deign to live on a budget and that they do not learn anything valuable about careful spending habits. To make his point, Mr. McAuley criticizes rich Harvard students who take the T instead of taxis, who frequent sales racks instead of high priced stores like the Tannery, and who prefer to eat in dining halls rather than patronize expensive restaurants. It is a perverse and undeserved assault...
Brent distinctly remembers a story from seventh-grade basketball, in which he was playing point guard and didn’t take a shot the entire game, even passing up wide-open lay-ups in order to give his teammates the ball. After the game, his parents brought him into a room which had a sign that read, “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built...
Harvard found itself up by a point a second time, this time courtesy of a Springfield attack error. But the Pride’s next attack attempt was successful and the score was knotted once again, this time...
...With Iran having refused to accept the terms of an international offer to exchange most of its enriched-uranium stockpile for reactor fuel, the Obama Administration had hoped to up the ante with new U.N. sanctions by February. But diplomats say June is more likely the earliest point at which the Security Council could be persuaded to act. And even in the best-case scenario, new U.N. sanctions are unlikely to carry the "bite" promised by Clinton - measures that would inflict sufficient pain on Iran to change the calculations of its regime. (See pictures of terror in Tehran...