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Daily Archives: August 18, 2025
Comedy Break
Austan Goolsbee was born
on this day in 1969
Austan Goolsbee – the American economist and University of Chicago professor – was born on August 18, 1969 – in Waco, Texas.
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Jason Furman was born
on this day in 1970
Jason Furman – the American economist and Harvard University professor – was born on August 18, 1970 – in New York City.
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Campus Life at the
Barnard College
Quote, Unquote
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Quote, Unquote
It’s unlikely that in reading even the very best satiric works of another era we feel anything like the glee or the outrage experienced by a contemporary audience.
~ Philip Roth via The Atlantic
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