Siddhartha Mazumdar
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Two Students Win Rhodes Scholarships
A Lowell House senior and a second year graduate student in Economics will spend the next two years in Oxford.
Tales of Distress
A FEW WEEKS AGO, Newsweek featured a special report on poverty in America. Ceaselessly, it alleged, the current Administration has
On the Road, Again
E VER SINCE THE DAY Washington Irving disembarked in Liverpool to sketch the English countryside. American writers have ventured to
Burying the Dead
I NDEED. our world would grow larger upon turning back the front page of the New York Times. A vast
Food for Thought
F EW DIRECTORS can confound critics as thoroughly as Louis Malle. Pretty Baby gave him the perfect opportunity to produce
No Red at Harvard
Walter Lippmann--on his first trip to the Soviet Union--took time off from official duties and visited the grave of an
Supply-Side Blues
A MINOR LEGEND enshrouds the birth of what has come to be known as "supply-side economics"; few subjects have proven
E Pluribus Unum
'W E DO NOT LIVE in the past, but the past in us," said the historian whom Thomas Sowell quotes
Working Class Zero
C ARA APPROACHED the counter, did a pirhouette while screaming, "Can I have some more silvuh-way-uh please?" Buddy backed off
Trading Morals for Resources
T HE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION'S posture toward the Republic of South Africa should surprise no one who has watched the growing