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Among the happiest of his controlled skids is Fred Willard as Buck Laughlin, a supremely confident, supremely clueless TV commentator filling time with proctologist jokes, making awful wordplays when the Shih Tzu appears. He's the outsider trying fecklessly to gain a purchase on a closed world. He is also, one suspects, one of Guest's inner voices, an assertion of the reality principle saved from contempt by its self-satirizing edge...
...market developed to package and sell certified reductions in greenhouse emissions, money might flow to states that took action to reduce deforestation. By one calculation, if Acre would commit to cutting in half the expected deforestation along a 500-km stretch of BR-364, the state might ultimately gain $37 million a year from the sale of greenhouse credits. The concept is risky because it might perversely encourage governments to launch development projects in the hope of selling credits to stop their work. Moreover, the Brazilian federal government has not yet embraced the concept because it contains implications that federal...
...money out of the current system and placing it in private accounts. This money could then be invested in stocks and bonds, as has been advocated by Bush advisor and Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61. Feldstein has argued that private investments will create a "All-Gain, No-Pain" fix for Social Security, as the swirling stock markets buoy the program to higher and higher returns. Yet pleasant fantasies may not serve as the basis for future policy, and there are several persuasive reasons why such painless gains will not be realized--and should not be pursued--outside...
After more than three years of federal investigations, the U.S. government is suing Professor of Economics Andrei Schleifer '82 and Jonathan Hay, a former legal advisor, for seeking personal gain from their positions in a consulting project helping Russia in the transition from Communism to a market economy. The suit alleges that Schleifer and Hay, along with their wives, both financial professionals operating in the Russian capital market, profited from conflict-of-interest investments. They are also charged with using U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funds for their own private operations. More importantly, the suit implicates Harvard University, alleging...
...Building this bridge to corporate control is a flawed set of campaign finance laws so porous corporations don't even have to do anything illegal to gain undue influence. This whole edifice, built upon a shoddy Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo equating money with speech, has given rise to a system in which the only speech that matters is money...