A Leak via Ken

My colleague Ken Rogoff has just released a top secret memo from Paul Wolfowitz to the World Bank staff.

Martha Stewart Crafts

Breaking news everyone. Enough to explain two posts in one day!

Martha Stewart Crafts is now open for business and there are some super wedding related products.

I am loving these eyelet cards for sweet handwritten shower invitations and the matching favor boxes filled with the brides favorite candy.

And this best wishes garland is fantastic for any shower.

How about these heirloom tags. Think of all the fun things you could do with them.

The options are endless. There are lots of ribbon, craft supplies, organizing tools. Oh I do love Martha!

A Busy Afternoon

Tomorrow (Wednesday), Larry Summers will give an ec 10 lecture on "Global Integration, Economic Development, and the Future of the Global Economy." All Harvard students are welcome to attend. The lecture is at noon in Sanders Theater in Memorial Hall.

In addition, at 2 pm on Wednesday, Alan Blinder and Jagdish Bhagwati will debate "Offshoring of American Jobs: What Response from U.S. Economic Policy?" The event is in Emerson Hall, Room 105, and is free and open to the public.

Preppy Hobbies

Well you all know that I have been in "trying to find something to do after planning the perfectly preppy wedding mode" so I thought I would share with you some of the results of my new preppy hobby - photography.

I'm taking a class at the local visual arts center and our big assignment was to frame shots better, add texture to our photographs and to play with aperture (in a nut shell, making things look blurry in the background). Now, I am just beginning, but I thought I would share the results of some of my hard work.

(This is actually one of the original door handles at our house)

And what better than to combine hobbies. Take a look at all the gardening I have been doing.

And you know for portraits, I had to enlist the help of LuLu & Dempsey.

Oh and take a look at what I call, self portrait (well and it does include the preppy lil sis). Bangs. I have bangs. I looked fear in the face and said - Chop it off.

So the moral for all you brides to be out there - there is life after the wedding!

LONDON - durrr, the end + plastic people, curtain road, 04/30/07

LONDON - on the street, brick lane, 04/30/07

Consenting Adults

ABC News reports:

The woman charged in a federal indictment with running a high-class Washington, D.C. call girl service says she plans to call her prominent clients to testify at her trial....Also on Palfrey's list of customers who could be potential witnesses are a Bush administration economist, the head of a conservative think tank, a prominent CEO, several lobbyists and a handful of military officials.

I would be surprised if there were a real economist on the list: the conventional wisdom is that all the prostitutes leave town during the American Economic Association convention.

Many economists would, nonetheless, vote to legalize prostitution on general libertarian principles. But if it is to be ruled an illegal transaction, then it is hard to argue with this logic:

None of her male customers is named by the government. "That's very hypocritical," she says. "Why aren't these people under arrest? Why just me?"

Update: The Washington Post reports:

a man who told the escort service he was a White House economist turned out to have engaged in r�sum� inflation. He actually works across the street as an analyst for the Office of Thrift Supervision.