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...Houghton Libray's current exhibit, "About Faces: Historic and contemporary Issue in Type Design," suggests that such computer-driven democracy movement have already occurred outside the political sphere. If he cared about likely approve of the similar convulsions that technology has produced within the world of type design. The well chosen pieces in the exhibit convey the sense that the typographic snob-club that has determined letterom fashion since Gutenberg now teeters on the verge of collapse...
There is no doubt that many Asian-Americans have been very economically successful. But success in our private lives and businesses too often functions as a form of amnesia, making us forget persistent problems in the public sphere. No matter how hard we work and try to assimilate, Asian-Americans remain victims of hateful and racial violence...
...economic sphere, conservatives have every reason to continue to be critical of Big Government, undue intrusions into the market, protectionism, excessive regulation and apocalyptic environmentalism. They should continue to stand against ever expanding entitlements and the ideal of forced equality. But conservatives must not merely oppose. In that spirit they should also question some of their taboos (certain tax increases and government initiatives cannot be damned under any and all circumstances). As creative conservatives from Disraeli on understood, conservatism is bound to fail if it is seen as a prescription for doing nothing...
Gary Becker, 61, economics and sociology professor at the University of Chicago and Business Week columnist, pioneered the theory that people follow the same rational path whether making simple everyday decisions or complex business calculations. Honored for "extending the sphere of economic analysis to new areas of human behavior and relations," he has influenced demography and criminology with his research...
...competition that is normal and inevitable among nations will increasingly be played out in the 21st century not in aggression or war but in the economic sphere. The weapons used will be those of commerce: growth rates, investments, trade blocs, imports and exports. "The move to multinational trade blocs around the world has suppressed nationalism," says Gregory Schmidt of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, California. "Economics will eventually win out in the 21st century...