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...surveyed his research options 30 years ago, he settled on the then relatively unsexy specialty of labor. The subject tickled his sense of skepticism. "The view that was taking hold at that time, a view that unemployment wasn't a terribly serious problem, was importantly wrong," Summers says. "I thought if you could have areas where there was long-term substantial unemployment, then that raised some questions about the functioning of markets." In essence, Summers saw in unemployment a chance to explore how markets don't work - and to think about policies that could correct for the failures. Perfect training...
Colin, you mentioned before that there were environmental groups that, when news of what you were doing first broke out, were worried. They thought people already associated environmentalism with giving things up, and they worried that message wouldn't work with people. Do they still feel that way? Colin: For me, there are two models for change. One is a model that works through collective action and politics. And then there is the model that works through individual action and lifestyle change. People in the environmental movement have been working so hard for collective action that when No Impact...
...between the eyes, or that’s how it felt, but in fact it was a sleeper’s or a dreamer’s gaze—he didn’t seem to be listening to the suntanned guys, and at the time I thought, Either he’s critically ill or he’s very happy.” It is this obsession with digression that will become Bolaño’s signature, but at this early stage in his career it isn’t yet totally effective; it never...
...Divinity School, where Eck and William Martin, a Rice University religion professor, both gave speeches. The evening milking followed. The celebration, said Eck, was “in keeping with the inventive and delightful way with which Harvey Cox has looked at the religious phenomena of the world and thought about the ways in which we human beings live and experience them.” “It is part of who Harvey is,” she said. —Staff Writer Madeleine M. Schwartz can be reached at mschwart@fas.harvard.edu...
...research papers and projects, for example, wouldn’t work,” Cross wrote in an e-mail. Marlon D. Kuzmick, an Expository Writing preceptor who plans to teach “Multimedia Communication: Principles of Visual Rhetoric” during the January Session, said that he thought that instructors teaching during January have to be particularly attentive to how difficult it might be for students with full-time jobs to take long classes that meet frequently. “That said, I believe that the compressed character of the course will offer students the opportunity to achieve...