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...economics at Boston University, was a prescient doomsayer. In 2005, when everyone else was bullish, he wrote to his shareholders that global markets looked "very treacherous" and warned about rampant borrowing "to speculate in real estate." In 2006, he derided the notion that "business cycles have been banished" and spoke of the danger of "extreme events in which the entire financial system experiences distress." He added: "The absence of fear continues to astonish me. I fear the absence of fear...
...stipulation that he refrain from giving advice to patients seeking assisted suicide. Instead of returning to medical practice, Kevorkian said he will work to legalize assisted suicides for the next generation of doctors. He is currently running in Michigan for a seat in the House of Representatives. Kervorkian also spoke at length on what he said he perceived as the dishonesty, lack of discipline, and undercurrent of fear in modern society. Departing from the stated topic of his talk, he compared the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the actions of the Nazis. One audience member said he fundamentally agreed...
South Korean police have since announced that they will crack down on online defamation, but little has been said about the late actress's problems as a single mother in this deeply conservative society. Choi spoke openly on the taboo topic and sought to change the unpopular public perception of single moms in South Korea. "Korean society does not like strong women, and thinks single moms have a personality disorder," says Park Soo Na, a national entertainment columnist. "It's like a scarlet letter." She says single mothers often ask their parents to raise their grandchildren so the kids...
When Theodore Roosevelt first saw the Grand Canyon, he spoke the words that would become his philosophy for national parks: “Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only...
...Jackson III ’66: “You can’t plan the important things.” Hosted by the Harvard College Women’s Center and co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, Sara E. Jobin ’91 spoke with a group of students over lunch as part of the Alum-inating! program, a speaker series that brings a prominent alumna to campus each semester. Jobin—who is also this year’s Clifton Visiting Artist, a position given by the Office for the Arts...