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...part of a flight will simply mean an adjustment in plans for a terrorist. And if we focus too much on Afghanistan, where our intelligence agencies say there are only 100 or so al-Qaeda operatives, we run the risk of taking our eyes off the prize and playing into the hands of the forces we are trying to defeat. Roland Nicholson Jr. Mont-Tremblant, Canada...
...Jury's Still Out Your naming Ben Bernanke as Person of the Year reminds me of the Nobel Peace Prize given to President Obama: both men are being congratulated in advance of any results [Dec. 28 - Jan 4]. Don't forget that Bernanke could be wrong, and then we might find the medication is worse than the illness. The final judgment will not come for a couple of years. Jean Claude Pivot Vourles, France
Bankers are born no greedier than the rest of us. That assertion alone makes Joseph Stiglitz's comprehensive postmortem stand out from the reams of books published so far about the financial crisis. Instead of attacking individuals, the Nobel Prize--winning economist faults the system that delivered us to the brink, citing the effects of everything from deregulation to the misaligned incentives of people selling financial products. But Stiglitz has his sights on a larger problem as well. For too long, he argues, economists and policymakers have relied on the erroneous assumptions that markets are fundamentally efficient and material wealth...
...Apocalyptic”—that was the word used by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz to describe the massive earthquake that rocked Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
Harvard’s 18-point rout of the Lions proved that the Crimson will be a major player for the Ivy title—a prize that last belonged to the squad...