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...Staff writer William N. White can be reached at wwhite@fas.harvard.edu...
...logical and efficient to let any competitive advantage inform decision-making in the free market - a position many economic libertarians continue to embrace today. What some consider to be America's first insider-trading scandal took place shortly after the nation's birth; a former Assistant Treasury Secretary named William Duer capitalized on his government connections to make bets on the country's debt. His investments eventually soured, however, and Duer's bankruptcy brought down much of New York's economy in 1792; he died a few years later in debtors' prison. (The charter members of the Buttonwood Group...
...gods into their difficult days and homes. In their devotion and humble attentions, Hindu and Muslim and Jain - not to mention menial worker and Brahmin and outlaw - have as much in common as apart. "We may be mortal," as one sculptor of deities (and a Lions Club president) tells William Dalrymple, in his new book Nine Lives, "but our work is immortal...
Page has worked at Harvard to mobilize religious people around climate change issues, including helping organize a Climate Convocation at Memorial Church early last month, which featured multi-faith advocacy for environmental causes and key-note speaker William E. McKibben...
...inspired by the ceremony to dedicate the Statue of Liberty. The practice was still a novelty 10 years later, when the New York Times reported that office workers had "hit on a new and effective scheme of adding to the decorations" at a parade for presidential candidate William McKinley by unfurling hundreds of ticker-tape reels out the window. (See the best and worst sports executives...