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After Shleifer and DeLong completed their doctorates, each taught at a few different universities before joining Harvard and Berkeley, respectively. But pure research was not the only thing on either of their plates in the early 1990s—each soon took up an important policymaking role, and Shleifer’s would soon land him in hot water...
...auditorium, 26 public restrooms and the largest cafeteria in Washington. Lawmakers will use the facility to hold press conferences, luncheons, and even to vote when the House or Senate needs renovating. The floors will be made of Tennessee marble, the walls of Pennsylvania sandstone and several doors of pure bronze. The plaza above the center, paved with Virginia granite, will hold Presidential inaugurations and allow state funerals to proceed to the front of the Capitol rotunda...
...Texas Governor, notes that the law went into full effect only last year and that more time is needed for it to work. Still, she and the Administration have proposed a large number of adjustments to a law she once compared to Ivory soap, saying "It's 99.9% pure." "We wrote the very best bill we could five years ago," Spellings told TIME, "but we've learned from our experiences." Meanwhile, members of Congress have their own fix-it agendas, as do state education officials and, of course, the teachers unions...
...supplies around a quarter of Europe's natural gas and a rising proportion of its oil. Human rights, however, are in shorter supply. Earlier this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel chided Putin for restrictions on opposition rallies during an E.U.-Russia summit. Putin's response: "What is pure democracy? It is a question of ... whether you want to see the glass half-full or half-empty." While Litvinenko's murder remains unsolved, many fear the levels in that glass will continue to fall...
...totally called me racist! I am not racist! I have black friends!”), people would do well to entertain the possibility that, despite what we’d like to believe, Harvard is not a bastion of racial harmony, and we students are not pure and perfect in our unconscious beliefs. The problem might be more subtle than it used to be, but there’s still a long way to go before we reach real racial understanding...