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...Town halls entail risk, of course, especially if you're addressing a motley crew that's a long way from the scrubbed and polite Rotarians. The candidate could get ambushed by an activist, a conspiracy theorist, someone who just wants to argue or even someone who has mistaken the open forum for group therapy. At a town hall focused on global climate change in Portsmouth, McCain called on a severely disabled man who identified himself as Greg. He brought one of McCain's books to sign, but his rambling preamble took a dramatic turn: He asked McCain if he should...
...Defense experts disagree on the seriousness of the Pentagon's funding crunch. Of course, if war - as the great Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz put it - is simply the continuation of politics by other means, it should be no surprise that funding a war as controversial as Iraq will be a highly contentious business. And while the Pentagon can surely move money between its various funding streams to keep the war going for a while, it's also obvious that the Bush administration is counting on a political backlash to force the Democrats to back down, as they...
...Giving Earth a Voice I am an environmental educator who works internationally, and I bought the "Heroes of the Environment" special issue with great interest [Oct. 29]. However, I was disappointed to see Virgin tycoon Richard Branson alongside real environmental heroes such as Gaia theorist James Lovelock and Green Belt Movement co-founder Wangari Maathai. Although the writer defended Branson's inclusion, I am not convinced. I acknowledge that he is giving a large sum of money to scientific research for developing clean fuels, and this will certainly help our fight. But his environmental efforts are akin to offsetting long...
...national group. Over the centuries, the allegedly still-extant order has been portrayed as malevolent, benign, heroic and occult. Organizations all over the world, without any direct connection, have appropriated its name. (The Freemasons reportedly have an "Order of the Knights of Templar," thus consummating a kind of conspiracy theorist's dream marriage.) Such homages should not obscure the fact that however much power they enjoy in the realm of fiction and fantasy, it almost certainly does not equal that which they once actually possessed - and then abruptly lost...
...Myerson took several classes together while pursuing their PhDs in applied mathematics at Harvard. As graduate students, they began to refine and extend Hurwicz’s work, applying it to practical schemes such as the regulation of markets and auctions. Professor of Economics Susan C. Athey, an economic theorist who specializes in industrial organization, says that the theories of both Myerson and Maskin have contributed substantially to her own work on auctions. Athey, who said she considers Maskin a mentor, added that he was “extremely popular” among graduate students during his time at Harvard...