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...many important issues are on everyone's minds during this time of year, but I have only so few words allotted to this column. Here are a variety of things to ponder before exams and papers start stressing you out too much--a sort of spring cleaning for your brain...
...club and co-producer of the 127th show, Put Up Your Dukes. He recalls his fondest memories as ones involving the Man and Woman of the Year celebrations and the trip to Bermuda. But deciding whether or not he would join the social organization today, he had to ponder the question. "I would join the Hasty Pudding Club because of its connections to the Hasty Pudding Show," he tells FM, after long contemplation. "In retrospect, my participation with the Hasty Pudding Theatricals was clearly the most important non-academic activity in my Harvard experience." Although the club and the theatricals...
Economists ponder the wealth effect the way many of us ponder alien life. They're pretty sure it's out there--but they can't prove it, they don't know how big it is, and they haven't a clue if it's dangerous. All of which is creating a bit of a stir among the dismal-science lot as their famous and thought-to-be-flawless colleague, Alan Greenspan, relentlessly jacks up interest rates to wage an undeclared war on this vague creature...
...accelerated by a tremendous brain drain." The destination? The U.S.A., whose relatively relaxed immigration policies have made it a magnet for the smart and productive elements from all over the world, who in turn have helped keep the U.S. economy out in front. While governments from Berlin to Tokyo ponder the findings, Washington is spared any such handwringing - far from shrinking, its population will actually increase 70 million over the next 50 years. "There's a general consensus among demographers that the U.S. has greatly benefited from its relatively open immigration policy by attracting some of the best brains...
...Although the treatment of the Holocaust in "Memory and Reconciliation" is sure to attract the most attention, there is plenty more for observers to ponder. It questions some of the more important episodes of church history in the Middle Ages, such as the Crusades, in which military campaigns ordered by the Vatican resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Muslims, Jews and Orthodox Christians, and the Inquisition, in which the Vatican authorized torture as a means of extracting confessions from "heretics." The document challenges many of the practices of the church in the New World, by criticizing forced...