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...question we asked is, ‘If the other person chose to be selfish, how would you respond?’,” said David G. Rand, a doctoral candidate who collaborated on the study as a part of his dissertation research...
...Often when people punish, the other person responds by punishing back, and you get this downward spiral of escalation,” Rand said...
...Your wheel of blame was missing a crucial player: Ayn Rand. She was former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's free-market guru. Like President George W. Bush, Greenspan's belief in free markets blinded him to the dangers inherent in the subprime-mortgage market. How else can one explain his failure to respond to early and repeated warnings from the late Edward Gramlich, a member of the Fed board who recognized the dangers and addressed the matter (perhaps in frustration) last year in his book Subprime Mortgages: America's Latest Boom and Bust? Kim Gardey, President, Gardey Financial Advisors...
...other way and maintained consistent pressure until Jamie Bates finally broke through for the game’s opening score, netting a rebound from the right side at 2:43.“We needed the first goal tonight, there was no question,” Bobcats coach Rand Pecknold said of his team’s effort to recover from Friday night. “We needed the confidence from that.”Quinnipiac extended its first lead of the series later in the period. Goaltender Bud Fisher deflected a Harvard shot into the air and then batted...
...could get things completely wrong--including civil rights. But what made him formidable was the number of things he got right. Buckley almost single-handedly drove anti-Semitism out of acceptable conservative thought. He was leery of Ayn Rand, Richard Nixon and the Iraq war. And he was a staunch anti-communist. His fixed star was the idea of human freedom. A sure applause line in presidential candidate Barack Obama's speeches this year holds that "it's possible to disagree without being disagreeable." William F. Buckley Jr. was proof...