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Maybe for a while yet. It's tempting to wag a finger at spendthrifts living beyond their means, or at the new breed of middle-class speculators taking out buy-to-let mortgages to become landlords. Yet most British borrowers look quite clear-eyed and rational once you've seen...
Varsity baseball’s pitching ace Ben Crockett ’02 says athletes who choose Harvard accept the school’s academic demands and make a “rational choice” to sacrifice more extracurriculars or social activities than if they had gone to another...
Jimmy Carter's Havana visit represents the accelerated privatization" of U.S. Cuba policy, prompted by a belief that Washington's official stance remains paralyzed by Florida electoral calculations. Those calculations mean that, whatever the outcome of Carter's visit, President Bush is expected to announce a tightening up of the...
In the weeks before the Gulf War, the CIA presented George Bush Sr. with a psychological profile of Saddam that hasn't altered in its essentials since. Analysts concluded that Saddam was a stable personality and a rational, calculating decision maker. They had no evidence he suffered from mental illness...
When an author breaches that core, as Carol S. Dweck does in her contribution “Beliefs that Make Smart People Dumb,” the insights can be weighty and provocative. She posits that smart people behave stupidly precisely because they possess great intelligence. Arthur Conan Doyle, of...