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At home at Terrace
In response to: Taking aim at comedy; grad students at Terrace
By Alan Johnson *08
Published in the April 6, 2011 issue
I think the inclusion of grad students at Terrace Club (On the Campus, Jan. 19) is a great thing. As an undergrad alum of a big state school, on those nights when I felt the urge to head to the Street, I felt most at home at Terrace. Probably only a small fraction of grad...
Economic remedies
In response to: An economic life
By Kai L. Chan *08
Published in the April 6, 2011 issue
It was such a delight to read about Alan Blinder ’67 (feature, March 2). I was fortunate enough to have met Blinder when I was at Princeton. (Blinder was on my dissertation committee, as was Paul Krugman.) In addition to being a giant in the field of economics, Blinder is...
Tight-jawed over tax credit
In response to: An economic life
By H. Philip Brandt II ’60
Published in the April 6, 2011 issue
Every spring, as I do the taxes of my stepdaughter, I get tight-jawed about the earned income credit (EIC), a massive giveaway to the welfare class, courtesy of American workers and retirees. I’ve been unsure where to direct my disgust with the throw-money-at-the-problem...
Using a misleading term
In response to: An economic life
By Laurence C. Day ’55
Published in the April 6, 2011 issue
PAW twice refers to Fed chairman Ben Bernanke’s $600 billion “quantitative easing” initiative as “printing new money.” This is not what is being done, and it is destructively misleading to label it as such. This journalistic misnomer has had the unfortunate consequence of...
Being part of an elite
In response to: After a 'go/no-go moment,' arts center plan in jeopardy
By Alan McKenney ’75
Published in the April 6, 2011 issue
The conflict between the University and the borough described in the March 2 Campus Notebook article is saddening but not surprising. The University community — students, faculty, and administration — on the whole tends not to think about the community outside the campus,...
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