Word: progressives
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...first - regulate the global economy or stimulate it? Nor will the albatross of AIG be removed from the government's neck anytime soon. Liddy said his goal is to restructure AIG's core businesses into "clearly separate, independent" companies that are "worthy of investor confidence." AIG has "made meaningful progress," but the company is still at the mercy of the economy. In the businesses it wants to keep, like commercial insurance, competitors sense an opportunity to grab market share. For the assets it wants to sell, there are few buyers. What remains is still a huge, vulnerable company...
Between 2004 and 2006, with 12 other committees exploring different areas of the undergraduate experience, and no one clearly in charge of the main Gen Ed committee, progress was slow. In January 2006, the committee finally agreed on a distribution requirement that would include all classes in the FAS course catalog, Simmons said, because it was simply the only thing they could agree on: a “common denominator...
...actually an abstract, profoundly wrong model of human behavior,” said Drazen Prelec ’78, a professor of management science at MIT, later redeeming the postulates behind economics by saying that “without those false assumptions, we could not have been making the progress we have been making.” Others voiced similar criticisms of economics. Harvard Economics Professor David I. Laibson ’88 noted that economics reduces individuals into simple decision-makers instead of acknowledging that people have several competing mental processes. Brown Neurobiology Professor Peter E. Politser argued that...
Harvard’s multi-billion-dollar house renovations progressed one step further on Thursday, when the preliminary findings of the Committee on House Life report were presented. The report’s conclusions will be familiar to anyone frustrated by missing the 7:15 dinner deadline or losing a fight over a common room, as it outlines significant changes that should be made in the new houses. Though we await the specific details of the final report, these initial findings address important student concerns and offer encouraging signs of progress...
...treating future New York Times columnist Ross G. Douthat ’02. The Salient editor emeritus is more measured in tone and more pragmatic in policy than Limbaugh, yet, when the Old Gray Lady announced his hiring, liberals pounced. A leftist think tank, the Center for American Progress, blasted Douthat in a newsletter, taking passages from his Crimson columns out of context and labeling his stances “hard-line.” As long as you have an R next to your name, some ideologues never will accept...