Thursday, September 25, 2003
Twin obits
A day that claims two intellectual giants does not happen that often, or at least I hope not. I woke up this morning to hear about the Luekemia-linked death of Edward Said, post-colonial studies scholar, advocate of the Palestinian cause (highly controversially) and Columbia University professor. And now, I just read about the death of Nobel laureate, Franco Modigliani, of the Modigliani-Miller theorem and the Life-cycle Hypothesis fame. R.I.P.
