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His professors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst had set his graduate class an assignment - pick an economics paper and see if you can replicate the results.
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But the flurry of policy initiatives is meant to suggest that young George sometimes kept a copy of the latest Brookings policy paper concealed inside his Playboy, and that he also knew who to call when the homework assignment was due.
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Lawyers for IBRC argued that the assignment was a sham, part of an asset-stripping exercise carried out at a massive undervalue and not worth the paper it was written on.
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