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...politician says that a pet tax break is so incentivizing that it will pay for itself, or that a bigger government deficit doesn't matter, ask yourself: Hey, in that case, why not lower tax rates to zero? Why torture ourselves with taxes at all? If you sense that there may be a flaw in that idea, ask yourself why a smaller version of the same idea isn't also flawed. If you don't sense a flaw, words are wasted...
...zero-sum game, he said. We dont always have winners and losers... There are equilibrium points that help everyone...
...status quo would be acceptable, though still unattractive, if cheating were a victimless crime. But most large science classes—incidentally the places where copying on problem sets is most apt to occur—are graded on a curve. This creates a zero-sum situation, where any points people gain by cheating do not simply help them, but hurt others...
Langewiesche is the author of American Ground: The Unbuilding of the World Trade Center, a book that has angered firefighters for its critical assessment of their role in recovery efforts at Ground Zero. Firefighters say they object to allegations in the book that they participated in looting and did not cooperate with other rescue workers at the scene...
...most striking statistic from yesterday’s game was the shortage of penalty minutes—zero for Harvard and four for Brown. Both sides were pleased with the relative lack of whistles, as well as their discipline...