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His thesis on "Inflation and Its Relationship to Economic Development in Brazil" demonstrated an early interest in macroeconomic issues and earned him a summa cum laude degree from the department.
Thomas Schelling, a former professor of economics at Harvard and now distinguished professor of economics and public policy at the University of Maryland, served as Rubin's thesis adviser. He recalls that Rubin "was very bright, very confident and didn't need any help."
In fact, according Mitchell Adams, Weld neverwanted anyone to see him studying. He wrote hissenior thesis--on two lines of a poem by SextusPropertius--in two weeks, while starring in thePudding show.
"I have a clear vision of Bill beneath thestage in between acts in his dress sitting in hischair with a yellow legal pad on his kneescribbling his thesis," Adams says.
A government concentrator, Kristol found a mentor in Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53, who advised his thesis on the French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville.