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...measure has its roots in the Great Depression and World War II. First the priority was tracking the ups and downs (mostly downs) of the business cycle in the 1930s. Then military planners needed a better way to assess production capacity. The result was gross national product (GNP), which after the war soon became the standard means of keeping economic score. It was replaced in 1991 by GDP, which measures production in the U.S. as opposed to production by Americans, but the basic idea is the same. The concept conquered the world--with Germany deserving special mention as surely...
...tables of ordinary folks, who have an enduring immunity to the charms of such candidates. Obama, however, is a debugged and turbocharged version of the old model; he is expanding the affluent constituency by drawing in thousands of new voters and wedding it to the black vote. As a result, he's not losing, as the script would normally call...
...failed to make quorum at 11 of its 37 meetings in the past four years. As contrast, Stock pointed to the years 1971 through 1979, during which the faculty missed quorum at only 2 of 55 meetings. Stock suggested that the recent rash of missed quorums may be a result of the Faculty’s growth over the last decade. The professoriate has expanded from 589 to 712 in the last ten years, increasing the number of attendees necessary for quorum. FAS Dean Michael D. Smith spoke briefly in favor of yesterday’s measure, casting...
...meantime, immigration policy that favors highly educated professionals will result in lower numbers of curry chefs. This is not all bad. You can only eat curry so many times in one week...
...moved to Hawaii, Stanley saw her first foreign film. Black Orpheus was an award-winning musical retelling of the myth of Orpheus, a tale of doomed love. The movie was considered exotic because it was filmed in Brazil, but it was written and directed by white Frenchmen. The result was sentimental and, to some modern eyes, patronizing. Years later Obama saw the film with his mother and thought about walking out. But looking at her in the theater, he glimpsed her 16-year-old self. "I suddenly realized," he wrote in his memoir, Dreams from My Father, "that the depiction...