But I hope some of the younger man still lives inside him, and I hope the Committee asks him about remote control warfare, because we could use his moral outrage in our contemporary debate.

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Paul Samuelson, one of the younger winners, and Mr Becker, who was a friend of Griliches, want the committee to take old age explicitly into account.

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The new government that took over last year, headed by Mr Thaksin's younger sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, has instead vested its own hopes of reconciliation in a committee of legislators, the House Committee on National Reconciliation (HCNR).

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