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...With this in mind, behold Princeton University’s newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, which recently published a somewhat funny joke issue. One article hails the arrival of Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe to the university. Another details a deal where Princeton would swap 10 spots in college rankings with the University of Florida for one of its top athletic programs...
...German school of thought— “thinking about the whole community almost as though it was one actor”—was another influence that Musgrave brought to bear on U.S. economic thinking, Poterba said.“That was a perspective that was somewhat different from what most U.S. economists were using,” Poterba said.Concerned with questions of how to set up an equitable tax system, Musgrave was a vocal critic of President Reagan’s conservative economic program.In 1982, Musgrave, with 33 other economists, sent a letter to the White...
...become more global over the past five years. Likewise, just over half said their employees now come from a wider array of countries than ever before. But asked how well prepared they thought their organizations were to succeed as global enterprises, 22% said they were either "extremely poorly" or "somewhat poorly" equipped. Strikingly, there were huge national differences, with British, French, German and Spanish executives showing the most confidence, Americans displaying average confidence, and Chinese and Japanese the least. Almost one in two of the Chinese and one in three of the Japanese polled by Accenture said they were poorly...
...support armies (while specifying that "no Appropriation of Money for that use shall be for a longer term than two years"), to "provide and maintain a Navy" and to summon into federal service, organize, arm and discipline the state militias. But they also anointed the President--theoretically, at least, somewhat insulated from popular whim by the Electoral College--as the "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several states" when called into national employ...
...between the "natural" and the "man-made." It's important to remember that these are just two different ways of saying man-made, with the difference being that the would-be natural parks try hard to disguise how man-made they are. To put the argument in familiar and somewhat simplified historical terms, on one side are the supremely rational (and unashamedly artificial) boulevards of Andr Le Ntre's design for the Gardens of Versailles, with their long Baroque vistas and knife-edge perpendiculars. On the other side are the parks and estates of Lancelot (Capability) Brown, the 18th...