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...Feldstein was appointed president of the National Economic Bureau, a focal point of economic research, "Feldstein has served as ringmaster to 130 of the best economists in the business, young and old; he probably has had more to do with defining the present-day concerns of his field than any others single man," Warsh writes...
...causes and cures. This is the sort of collective mindset that prompts idle New York Times reporters to run up to Harvard and Yale to interview crusty old professors about the good old days when a C was a "gentleman's C" and an A was as rare as present-day Harvard professors who grade their own papers...
...mirror up to visitors of every race and ethnic group, reflecting their prejudices and conflicts. In the giant hall, which covers half a city block, visitors will be able to walk through a multimedia history of hate, ranging from haunting ( scenes of a Nazi concentration camp to the present-day horrors of the Los Angeles riots...
...stigma borne by present-day patients "is harder to live with than the illness itself," laments Joanne Verbannic, a Michigan grandmother employed at the Ford Motor Credit Co., who at age 25 had paranoid schizophrenia diagnosed. "Every time I read about a 'paranoid killer' or hear on TV that the weather will be 'schizophrenic,' I feel like someone has put a knife...
Instead, set designer John Conklin evokes a gray, gloomy, decaying world (much like present-day Britain, in fact) that is literally falling apart. The centerpiece is a crumbling Ravenswood castle -- nevermore! -- that conjures the shades of doomed fictional redoubts from the Gibichungs' hall to Carfax Abbey, replete with scattered coffins, drowning pools and blood-red skies. So powerful are the designs that, probably for the first time in Lucia's history, one leaves humming the scenery...