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...interest and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. And the world will make lasting progress on the big inequities that remain - problems like AIDS, poverty and education - only if governments and nonprofits do their part by giving more aid and more effective aid. But the improvements will happen faster and last longer if we can channel market forces, including innovation that's tailored to the needs of the poorest, to complement...
...transplant the work of an author who exercised such meticulous control over his plays that he itemized the number of seconds between pauses, the precise level of gloomy light? Presumably Beckett meant "First Love" and the novel trilogy to remain in the forms in which he created them. Yet there's reason in Colgan's audacity. He wanted to prove that even Beckett's fiction has theatrical verve, that the static can be dramatic, that pieces written for the eye can entrance the ear, that, for this most "internal" author, the page was also a stage. Colgan's strongest case...
...wonderfully flawed exhortation in The American Scholar, William Deresiewicz excoriated elite universities and the paths they lead their students down. Students at places like Harvard, he argued, generally remain within the system, don’t take risks, and ultimately become “profoundly anti-intellectual.” “The idea of not being successful terrifies them, disorients them, defeats them,” Deresiewicz claimed. And in many ways, he’s right. As amazing as my summer at home has been, I can’t shake the gnawing anxiety that I might...
...Olmert isn't giving up on talks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas just yet. The Israeli Prime Minister said that while the fate of Jerusalem would remain unresolved, the remainder of a peace agreement that would give the Palestinians control over much of the land occupied by Israel in 1967 was still probable. The proposed deal, of course, is a "shelf agreement," an exercise in marking out the parameters of a future peace process that would be implemented only when Israel's security demands are met. The assumption, in the talks, is that the current Palestinian leadership would be unable...
...remain ambivalent about how to feel about the suicidal man himself - the only one, after all, to be physically harmed in the affair. It's surprising how many people have counseled me to reserve sympathy. He may have been a criminal or murderer, they say, a Crime and Punishment type, driven by shame or distraction to impose self-justice and end his guilt. In the ongoing discussion in my head, however, I counter with an equally plausible circumstance: a young poet, troubled by the world, driven by shame or distraction to oblivion on the tracks...