Though Mr. O'Hara's once-popular novels and short stories are no longer widely read, he was famous in 1940 for his well-tuned ear, and the characters in "Pal Joey" sound like they stepped out of a real-life alley after throwing a couple of punches.

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Professor Shiller, famous economist and one of the developers of the widely followed Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, asked the financial industry to take advantage of the historic opportunity created by the global financial crisis.

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