DISQUS

Happy Easter, Gary!!

Merry Christmas Eve, Gary!!

Happy Thanksgiving Gary!!!

It doesn't require hindsight. Any fool knows that simply eliminating an industry or significant number of jobs will lead to greater unemployment or increased employment in gray industries. So if you are planning to force changes that will shock an industry into lower employment (like an abrupt and large minimum wage increase) or shut the industry down, you need to prepare for that by creating additional employment opportunities. A focus on "key issues" like the garment industry in Saipan, or Nike elsewhere, to the exclusion of the greater economic context, is why targeted human rights improvement efforts won't work. If you'd like, I can propose more specifics, but I was just commenting on your blog and didn't realize you'd wanted a dissertation defense.

It's not the law of unintended consequences, it's the law of proper planning prevents pis poor performance. The transition of former female and child garment workers into prostitution in the absence of other gainful employment was completely forseeable, which is why strategies for improving human rights have to be combined with other economic development strategies to prevent that type of job "replacement."

So, where did the departing Indian population go? You'd think it would be difficult to go right back to the Indian subcontinent when they are removed from it by three and four generations.

In case you're wondering how the average generation gap remains in the 30's, I met a woman who totally balances out Grover C. She was 30 and had a grandchild.

Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan. If you hit the highlights of Central Asia I will be soooooo jealous.

Usually when that sort of thing happens, they cut you some slack by not counting the 'bad' problem. Your TA probably feels totally embarrassed right now.

I know these look kind of dorky, but maybe you could get one of those little suitcases with two wheels. You shouldn't carry more than 15% of your own weight on your back, at least according to my mom:)

My parents bought an Apple IIc for the house when I was in second grade, and then did not upgrade till I was a freshman in college. No joke, my dad wrote his master's thesis on that thing, and now I would have no idea how to retrieve that information from those floppies, if they haven't totally disintegrated by now. That little green screen was awesome.

I think it's the opposite, that law and medicine are the only professional schools that purportedly prepare you for your actual profession, and it's mainly because they are covariate with licensure requirements (urban legend has it that if people taking only the intensive bar prep course can pass the bar, though I have no idea how those pass rates compare with people who went through the whole JD program- could be a marketing myth:)). Other degrees are just for signalling and networking- and it sounds like the signalling effects are not inconsequential for the Harvard folk.

I have to concede that Elyse won all the mini contests. I did not get the impression that those things counted for anything other than the little prize at the end of each one.

Kimora Lee is not what I would call rotund...although I think Janice Dickinson would pull the trigger. She was ALL OVER Elyse. JD reminded me of the SNL skit when Lara Flynn Boyle was on, and the fake Helen Gurley Brown was talking about how extravagant a meal of water and celery would be. She was a fine counterweight to the anti-Elyse sentiment. Anyway, if Kimora Lee had all that pull and was really trying to put over a 'big' girl, then Robin would have lasted longer as a plump, nay, gargantuan size FOUR.

You are prolly right that the judging will be more, let's say, transparent next time. Like maybe with an ordinal ranking instead of just the 'in/out' vote for up to ten contestants. Makes no sense.