while doing up the application to columbia, i was reading up faculty publications and interests yeah... yeah everyone knows about jeff sachs, and my opinion on that is closer to (see easterly below)

right, so i've read papers by sala-i-martin before, and now it turns out he is president of barcelona football club... i hope this does not impinge on my ability to take him seriously as an economist, now that i've seen him with a cigar with frank rijkaard holding the european cup... what the...

i hope it still is a proper school.

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