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...signaling hope for renewed talks to thaw relations between the two Koreas. But just as the rest of the world was beginning to move beyond its conception of North Korea as a wacky, dysfunctional regime, along comes the son of the leader, using a fake passport to go sightseeing. Memo to the world: there is nothing normal about the Kims...
...example, when Summers was chief economist at the World Bank, he signed off on a controversial memo--authored by a staffer--that discussed the economic utility of dumping toxic waste in poor countries. Although Summers apologized for the memo and has said it was written ironically, it has continued to dog him. Such pure economic calculations may provide cost-effective solutions, but they are distasteful to those whose primary concern is not utility but health. Bloom says that such pure economics should not dominate decisions that could affect public health...
...private conversations about the future of the University were usually conducted with two or three members of the committee. After each meeting the members would draw up a memo to be distributed to the absentee committee members, summarizing the discussion and highlighting names and possible candidates...
...Pentagon, officially at least, had no good answer. Unofficially, it was reported that Pentagon sources had said the retraction, which followed within hours of CNN broadcasting news of Monday's directive, reportedly came after State Department and National Security Council officials "went ballistic" on hearing of the memo. In other words, it was the outcome of a traditional hawks vs. doves turf war over foreign policy...
...chance to ask those questions, in part because doing so would be talking seriously about an unspeakable memo. Perhaps Harvard should stop forwarding Summers’ memo and start reading...