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...Upon graduation from Harvard in 1975, Bernanke moved down Mass. Ave.to MIT to continue his studies...
...Upon signing the registration forms on the first day of freshman year, where first-years give their proctors the right to legally bust their parties, Harvard students also sign away the right to do nothing, without feeling monumentally...
More important, Friedman’s insistence upon pithy labels for the book’s central analytic concepts makes the ideas less understandable. He offers an involved theory of how the current form of globalization, with its level playing field and widely accessible avenues for international commercial competition, arose. Ten “flatteners,” the story goes, constitute the forces primarily responsible for leveling the playing field. Most of these are business practices defined in the peculiar language of management consultants—outsourcing, insourcing, open-sourcing, supply-chaining—but the list also includes...
...proud man is usually called upon to release a public statement that his son, the chump, intends to stand by the bride, assuming he can find...
When Canadian psychoanalyst Elliot Jacques coined the term midlife crisis back in 1965, he was not talking about a man who, upon turning 40, wakes up the next morning afraid he is going to die, goes in for hair plugs, buys a Porsche and runs off with a cupcake. He was studying creative genius and found that for many artists productivity began to decline as they reached middle age and wrestled with their own mortality. Never a legitimate clinical diagnosis, it was more like a handy way of describing the perfectly predictable process whereby every so often people looked around...