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Scrapbook What Did Royce Lamberth Know . . . ? For a press corps obsessing over who knew what when before September 11, there was little attention paid last week to the following revelation in...
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...Such a reminder can enable us to identify those who today embody Nazism's most distinctive trait, fanatical hatred of Jews—a passion that seems as enduring as it is monstrous...
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...Bush called him "the intellectual godfather" of the all-volunteer army and a fierce advocate of school choice...
...According to OSI's press release, Schiffer "served at the Sachsenhausen and Hersbruck concentration camps in Germany, the Majdanek concentration camp and Trawniki SS training camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, and on two so-called Nazi 'death marches' to the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps...
...Those who spend someone else's money on someone else aren't careful about how much or what it buys...
...Friedman is famous for simple but scintillating economic explanations...
...Just last Monday, May 20, the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) of the Justice Department succeeded in deporting to Romania one Nikolaus Schiffer, an American-born citizen, who in 1943 voluntarily joined the Waffen SS (and hence surrendered his right to U.S...
...In light of the grotesque equations of Israelis to Nazis that have been spouted by Yasser Arafat and his sympathizers, to say nothing of the wave of anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe, it is useful to recall what the character of a genuine Nazi is...
...That last case, Friedman exclaimed, "that's government...
...About half of all the grades given out at Harvard during 2001 were A's and A minuses...
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...So did former Attorney General Ed Meese, White House adviser Larry Lindsey, and economist Gary Becker, like Friedman a Nobel Prize winner...
...We're lucky that Milton Friedman flunked some of his qualifying exams to become an actuary and became an economist instead...
...He's also a social reformer...
...Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan rescheduled a speech in Chicago to attend...
...In Washington, Royce Lamberth, chief judge of the special federal court that reviews national-security wiretaps, erupted in anger when he found that an FBI official was misrepresenting petitions for taps on terror suspects...
...Bush said that when Friedman began his work—he'll be 90 this July—"the conventional wisdom held that capitalism's days were numbered...
...The Original Axis of Evil Who says Americans don't have the attention span for a long war...
...And President Bush delivered a tribute and hosted a White House lunch for Friedman and his wife, Rose...
...But not only did Harvard acknowledge its problem, it has set out to change its ways...
...Now all that's changed thanks partly to Friedman, whose economic ideas are "at work" in Chile, Russia, Sweden, even China, and of course in this country...
...Those who spend someone else's money on themselves don't care what they spend but are attentive to what it buys...
...The problem with the federal budget, he's often said, is not the size of the deficit but the share of the national economy the government claims...
...Justice Benjamin Cardozo famously complained that the prisoner shouldn't go free "because the constable has blundered...
...From now on, no more than 60 percent of the graduating class will receive honors...
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...This account raises an even weightier conundrum: Should terrorists go unmonitored because a judge is ticked off at an FBI official...
...The reforms, of course, depend on professors' monitoring themselves to reduce the number of A's...
...From the summer of 2000 on into the following year, sources said, the FBI was forced to shut down wiretaps of Qaeda-related suspects connected to the 1998 African embassy bombing investigation...
...It was a major problem,' said one source familiar with the case, who estimated that 10 to 20 Qaeda wiretaps had to be shut down, as well as wiretaps into a separate New York investigation of Hamas...
...Those who spend their own money on someone else are careful how much they spend but careless about what it buys...
...The school had become so promiscuous at awarding distinction that our occasional contributor, professor of government Harvey C. Mansfield, last year felt compelled to announce a double grading system for his classes, giving his students an "ironic grade," indexed for grade inflation and entered into the official records, along with a second informal grade based on actual merit...
...The Godfather of Voluntarism When Milton Friedman came to Washington recently, the high and mighty gathered to honor (and listen to) the great free market economist...
...Those who spend their own money on themselves are careful about how much they spend and what it buys...
...Our ideal candidate is someone with excellent design sense and strong production skills...
...Nevertheless, Harvard president Larry Summers deserves at least an unironic B+ for his capable work on this important question...
...And nearly 90 percent of last year's graduating class received some form of honors...
...More important, Schif-fer's deportation—the culmination of a series of lawsuits begun in 1989—serves to remind us of just how recent was the almost successful attempt to exterminate the Jews of Europe...
...At the White House, Friedman offered a succinct lesson...
...So The Scrapbook is not a little proud of Harvard University for acknowledging its decades-long habit of passing out top grades and graduation honors like some minimum-wage cornerboy handing out flyers for a discount shoe store...
...Give Harvard an A (or maybe just a B+) The first step in fighting addiction is acknowledging you have a problem...
...Of course justice can never truly be done for the crimes Schiffer volunteered to take part in...
...But his deportation does bring, in the words of OSI director Eli Rosenbaum, "a measure of justice," however small...
...Scrapbook What Did Royce Lamberth Know . . . ? For a press corps obsessing over who knew what when before September 11, there was little attention paid last week to the following revelation in Newsweek (The Scrapbook believes in crediting reporters, but there were 11 bylines on this particular piece): "Newsweek has learned there was one other major complication as America headed into that threat-spiked summer...
...Lamberth prodded Ashcroft to launch an investigation, which reverberated throughout the bureau...
...The effect was to stymie terror surveillance at exactly the moment it was needed most: requests from both Phoenix and Minneapolis for wiretaps were turned down...
...Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and sidekick Paul Wolfowitz showed up...
...And the grading system is being reformed to make the B-plus more common relative to the A-minus...
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...As the finger-pointing proceeds in the coming weeks, the role of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act—which created this judicial oversight mechanism—should not go unexamined...
Vol. 7 • June 2002 • No. 37
