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- HOW BANKS PREPARED FOR A U.S. DEFAULT. (2)
- GREECE’S ADVANTAGE IN THE CHICKEN GAME. (2)
- Nick: That makes sense. It reminds me of the stories Pater Familias would tell me about how in Boston the person with...
- Dick Weisfelder: Greece seems to me to be playing a game that Karl Deutsch called “underdog.” While one...
- FOOTBALL PLAYERS DELIBERATELY CAUSING CONCUSSIONS? (3)
- Nick: It was my understanding that boxing gloves were to protect the puncher’s hands and not the...
- Dick Weisfelder: Remember the Roman arenas? Bare knuckled boxing? Such injuries were taken as natural and accepted in...
- Mary Jane Schaefer: This isn’t about football. Or even sportsmanship. Well, it is about sportsmanship. But what...
- A 25 % CHANCE OF A EURO DEFAULT? (1)
- Nick: The fact that this has gone on for so long is pretty perplexing. The Economist is referring back to articles it...
- DECIDING WHAT KIND OF PATIENT YOU ARE. (1)
- Dick Weisfelder: One can be very open to new technology, but also risk averse. The recent debates about how to...
- THE EUROZONE—A CHICKEN GAME WHERE EVERY MEMBER CAN BLOW IT UP? (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: This is not a matter of chicken. These are all turkeys.
- PLAYING WITH MATCHES NEAR A GASOLINE TANK. (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: Why would the French care? As long as they take down Britain?
- NORWAY’S CHRISTMAS BUTTER SHORTAGE. (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: Christmas with a butter cookie shortage–in Scandinavia. This isn’t even Scrooge. This...
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Monthly Archives: February 2008
A NATO OF THE EAST?
A NATO OF THE EAST? Dick Weisfelder called my attention to this article which describes the Shanghai Co-operation Organization. The organization consists of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzystan and Tajikistan and observers and among other things has called for a timetable … Continue reading
AN AMERICAN AND A CLOCHARD. (COMMENT).
AN AMERICAN AND A CLOCHARD. (COMMENT). Annalisa commented here on my post about French tourists who were thrilled to encounter an American who was down on his luck. Annalisa pointed out that as a tourist in France, I had a … Continue reading
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MEASURING THE AMERICAN DREAM.
MEASURING THE AMERICAN DREAM. Kids, in reading articles about income distribution you have to pay attention to measurement problems. The word “poverty” is ambiguous. Sometimes it refers to relative poverty and sometimes to absolute poverty. I think that in the … Continue reading
AN ECONOMIST LOOKS AT THE AMERICAN DREAM.
AN ECONOMIST LOOKS AT THE AMERICAN DREAM. This article by Paul Krugman points to a study which followed individual families in the United States for two generations. “According to one recent estimate, American children born to parents in the bottom … Continue reading
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THE GREAT GATSBY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM.
THE GREAT GATSBY AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. THE GREAT GATSBY is a favorite book for high schools not just because it is a great novel but because essays on Gatsby and the American Dream are such obvious assignments. This article … Continue reading
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EUROPEANS AND AMERICAN POVERTY.
EUROPEANS AND AMERICAN POVERTY. Europeans have always been fascinated by the extremes of American life. I once showed New York City to some French friends on their first evening in the United States. It was an extraordinarily hot August day. … Continue reading
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WELCOME TO SOBRO.
WELCOME TO SOBRO. A New York cab driver told me a number of years ago that a lot of international fares that he picked up at Kennedy asked to see Harlem even before they went to their hotel. He said … Continue reading
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MEANINGLESS DRAMA.
MEANINGLESS DRAMA. I am surprised to see that Albee and Stoppard are considered by Ben Brantley to be descendants of Beckett. I think that Becket pretty much fully explored and exhausted his vision and left little for followers to say—if … Continue reading
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IS ALBEE AN ABSURDIST? SHOULD HE BE?
IS ALBEE AN ABSURDIST? SHOULD HE BE? Ben Brantley argued in the article I linked to yesterday that “Mr. Albee and Mr. Stoppard are directly descended from Beckett” and that “Stoppard and Albee remind us of how much the Absurdists … Continue reading
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CHOOSING WORDS–STOPPARD AND THE CRICKET BAT.
CHOOSING WORDS–STOPPARD AND THE CRICKET BAT. It is surprising to see Ben Brantley saying that Stoppard despairs of communicating with words considering that one of Stoppard’s characters has an eloquent statement of what can be done with words and craftsmanship. … Continue reading
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