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...Nobel Prize in economics for his contributions to welfare economics. Sen pioneered the “capability approach” for measuring a citizen’s social well-being, and his work has been included in the United Nations Human Development Report. In her introduction to the speech, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan said Sen had earned the nickname “Mother Teresa of economics.” The talk drew a diverse audience, with many Law School students. Christel A. Green, a third-year law student, said she attended the event out of an interest...
...refused each time. “I find that the extreme of politics. I don’t think that the people who are starving confuse dignity with starvation,” Gutierrez said. Despite his tough talk, the commerce secretary included a note of optimism in his speech. “There’s a tremendous amount of talent, creativity and vitality,” he said, “and when that is released, Cuba is going to become one of the greatest nations in the world...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame stressed the need for using science to accelerate Africa’s socioeconomic transformation in a speech at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium on Friday...
...Andrew Tobias, Democratic Party Treasurer, gave a passionate speech that could have been a highlight of the convention. But when he said: “In just the last eight years, the Republicans have cut the value of the U.S. dollar almost in half,” my neck got another workout...
...also hits Barack Obama with the type of barbs she employed at her acceptance speech in St. Paul. Rarely mentioning him by name, and using a tart, unapologetic, scornful tone, she paints him as an ambitious, do-nothing, partisan hack, not worthy of the job to which he aspires...