More valuable than the Dalai Lama?

"Environmentalists and left-leaning economists have been tryin to get
people interested in sustainable development for nearly two decades, and
now they're getting a new breath of life from Columbia University, says
the Wall Street Journal, reporting that Columbia has disclosed that it is
housing its new star economist, Jeffrey Sachs, in an $8 million townhouse
near Central Park West in Manhattan, which will double as a place where
Sachs can entertain world dignitaries to push his wide-ranging views about
the environment, infectious disease and Third-World poverty."