The former finance minister and economics professor is aiming to guide his country into a virtuous cycle of faster growth that creates more jobs, raises incomes and boosts savings and investments, which in turn helps to sustain the expansion.

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Professor Apfel is now their official tour guide and mentor, using her unparalleled knowledge and connections to introduce students to the fashion industry.

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Here too Professor Levi is a fascinating, breathless guide, leaping from rock to rock like one of those goats that heroes followed through the Italian wilderness.

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Elsewhere in our spring Investment Guide we offer the wisdom of Yale professor Robert Shiller on how to insulate yourself from oil-price unpleasantness ( Click here for more).

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If history is any guide, the process will hurt, says Joseph Fan, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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The professor's scheme may sound academic, but it offers a far more nuanced guide to America's religious divisions than the insults politicians trade in the election season.

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Mr. Tsarnaev's ability to speak Russian would have allowed him to be something of a "native guide for Kazakhs far from home, " said Brian Glyn Williams, a professor of Islamic history at the university who once advised Mr. Tsarnaev on a paper he was writing on Chechnya.

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