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...same time, he was one of the few foreigners to witness the demonstrations Tibetans staged in Lhasa in 1987, and so can understand the pain and fear that lie just below the city's ever more modern surfaces. His rumination on the capital of Tibet is the rare book that can draw tears just with its assemblage of neutral, entirely unpolemical facts...
...DIED. Louis Rukeyser, 73, trailblazing stock market broadcaster whose lively analysis and open disdain for professional investors made Wall Street Week, the low-tech TV program he hosted for 32 years, one of U.S. public television's best-rated shows; of multiple myeloma, a rare bone cancer; in Greenwich, Connecticut. With his tailored suits and wry delivery, Rukeyser became an unlikely celebrity from the world of economics, and PEOPLE magazine called him "the dismal science's only sex symbol." He later hosted a CNBC program until failing health forced him to retire...
This Australian Labor M.P. is a rare bird. Plenty of pols write books; only some are deep thinkers, fewer still are prepared to serve up ideas that go against party doctrine. An economist with big dreams, Emerson ranges widely and passion-ately from health to education, infrastructure to population policy, tax to trade. He proposes a universal payment to mothers of children aged under three, equity (rather than debt) funding of students in higher education, and a revival of economic activity in the regions. Many have spoken of the nation's complacency; its obsession with material wealth and comfort...
...Owings ’08 and directed by Andrew B. Malone ’08 with music direction by Jeffrey W. Howard ’08 and choreography by Olivia A. Jennings ’06, the cast and crew of “Footloose” achieves the rare feat of putting on a show whose elements all worked together with ease. They are professional, but they are also having fun—an essential attitude that seeps out into the audience to guarantee an enjoyable evening. Every member of the “Footloose” cast does...
Will Johnston’s thoughtful, nuanced piece on Whole Foods founder John Mackey (“Libertarian Environmentalist?” op-ed, May 3) gave an all-too-rare perspective on an important matter of moral preference: environmentally friendly goods and services. Though libertarians do not endorse using the coercive force of laws to make people kind or moral or environmentally conscience, they often hold very strong personal moral views...