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Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009

Open quoteWe set off the sticks of dynamite, but a lot of people had tinderboxes under their houses.Close quote

  • SIMON JOHNSON,
  • an MIT professor, on the role of the U.S. in triggering the global economic crisis
Photo: David J. Phillip / AP | Source: New York Times