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Spared
Chen Kegui is the nephew of Chen Guangcheng, the blind Chinese activist who arrived in the United States recently. When the Chinese authorities were looking for his uncle and stormed his house partly to make sure Chen Guangcheng wasn’t there and partly to harass his father and himself, there was an altercation, one of the…
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An Act of Love?
San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis, who’s running for mayor, has a decision to make, whether or not to charge 88-year old Alan Purdy. Purdy who had sat there while his wife, Margaret, 84, took 30 pills and secured a plastic bag over her head, called the paramedics after she died. Her life had…
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Optimism and Poverty
Esther Duflo, a MIT economist known for her data driven analyses of poverty, recently gave a provocative lecture at Harvard. Her data showed, she explained, that the absence of optimism plays a large role in maintaining people trapped into poverty. Hopelessness manifests itself in any number of ways. One for example is called pathological conservatism,…
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