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...contemporary, post-Industrial society - say, the U.S. An economy based on brains and connections? That sounds about right. It's been half a century since economists first lasered in on the importance of "human capital" - the notion that what is locked up in people's heads and how they relate to other people deserves just as much attention as a company's physical assets (its factories, trucks and land). With each new phase of our information society, it becomes truer that the way to get a leg up isn't to own a factory (they're all going overseas...
Selsby said that they are working to resolve the issue right now, if it has not been resolved already. In the meantime, he recommends that students notify FAS-IT (obviously not by email) if there are still problems sending to or from Harvard email accounts with Gmail...
...national scandal that we're nowhere close to having a reasonable discussion about taxes. A Reagan-size increase probably would be unwise right now, given the shaky economy. But the conversation will become unavoidable next year, when the Bush tax cuts expire. A restoration of the Clinton rates would go a long way toward paying down the Bush deficits and the assorted Bush-Obama federal bailouts and creating some breathing space if health reform costs more than expected. One hopes that Democrats, and fiscally responsible Republicans, will locate the backbone between now and then to do the right thing...
...ground for the party. "We really have to regain the image of being an inclusive party and tolerant of a lot of debate," Cantor says. "So I will continue to reach out and to work to develop policies that reflect a vision that can appeal to people on the right, in the middle and hopefully like-minded Democrats on the left. That's how you go about forming a governing coalition again...
...also telling that each of these efforts - from the removal of Franco statues to the exhumations of graves - has met with vociferous resistance. "There's a right-wing backlash against this huge 'recovery of memory' movement," says prominent Spanish historian Paul Preston. "You're dealing with a really complicated social phenomenon here - the families of the beneficiaries of Franco's victory. All they've ever been told by their parents and grandparents was about how they did the right thing, smashing communism and all that, and now they're being told that these people were little better than Hitler...