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One of the things I missed last week was Jishnu Das’s excellent, heartfelt piece about the state of development economics. But he’s not talking about causal identification or taking potshots in the war on randomization, but about the deeper values that he suggests have gone missing from the discipline.
The Village celebrates all the birthdays in a month with a nice lunch. The invitation stated I could bring a guest so I wisely chose the CEO.
Some audio experiences stick in your memory. For me, one such was in 1978, which I reminisced about in a 1987 review for Stereophile of the Mission PCM 7000 CD player, Mission 780 Argonaut loudspeaker, and Cyrus Two integrated amplifier. Mission founder Farad Azima (footnote 1) was a driving force in the UK audio scene in the late 1970s, when I was deputy editor of the English magazine Hi-Fi News & Record Review.
Tampa Bay Downs' current leading jockey Samy Camacho was tired Sunday but still savoring his first bite of the Big Apple after riding Bank Frenzy to a second-place finish in the $200,000 Times Square division of the New York Stallion Stakes for 3-year-olds Saturday at Aqueduct.
She may not be anyone's idea of a newcomer outside of Nashville, but Miranda Lambert is a fine performer and a talented songwriter with an innate sense of pop.