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...rash of mass murder--suicides has left more than 50 people dead in the U.S. over the past month. Criminologist James Alan Fox, attempting to explain the killings to the Washington Post, said, "The economic pie is shrinking to the point where it looks more like a Pop-Tart." But the Dow was above 12,000 on the April morning two years ago when Cho Seung-Hui made his bid for significance at Virginia Tech. And the rampage of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine High School, 10 Aprils ago, came during a delirious bull...
...Eventually he wrote a ballot initiative, a bill to levy fines against employers of illegal immigrants. He was outspent and outorganized by regional activist groups - he raised $430, they raised more than $70,000 - but his proposal still won by 15 percentage points. (A more ostentatious second proposition, to post 4-by-8-ft. [1.2 by 2.4 m] plywood signs at certain job sites declaring them for "Legal Workers Only," failed at the ballot box.) Like many others in the fight against illegal immigration, he sees himself as a reluctant warrior drawn to action by federal timidity. If the government...
...from Wall Street investors and sovereign wealth funds to staffers from the Commerce and Treasury departments. He's the recession's ascendant wonk and most improbable celebrity, as likely to pop up in the newspaper or on television as behind Nancy Pelosi during a press conference - sort of a post-housing-bubble Zelig. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
EDITORS NOTE: This post was intended as an adaptation of an article originally published in the Harbus, the student newspaper of Harvard Business School. However, the initial post did not make the source of the idea clear or cite the Harbus prominently enough. FlyBy regrets the error. Please check out the original Harbus article here...
...This post was removed from the front page because it was based on inaccurate information. In fact, according to Jeff Solnet '12, who coordinates the Pizza and Politics program, the events have not been downgraded as this blog post stated. Popcorn and Politics had just been offered as an additional event...