Word: bernards
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...remained flat (with only a 0.1 percent hike if you exclude falling energy prices). That?s zilch, folks. And so now it can be told: Reports of the resurrection of inflation were greatly exaggerated. "April?s rise was, as predicted, a one-time thing," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "With May?s number, the jittery markets may finally be able to stop worrying." (And they did -- rising by almost 190 points by the end of trading Wednesday...
Avant-garde writer and culture impresario Gertrude Stein was a stolid, heavy presence, monolithic, unladylike. She liked to gossip and had a great laugh. She boxed with welterweights for exercise. Art expert Bernard Berenson described her as looking "like a statue from Ur of the Chaldees." Alice B. Toklas was a chain smoker with a slight mustache, given to exotic dress, Gypsy earrings and manicured nails. They met in Paris in 1907. Alice, 29, found Gertrude, 33, "a golden brown presence." Gertrude insisted that Alice had heard bells heralding Stein's "greatness." Alice said Gertrude was simply struck by love...
Indeed, the announcement was the statistical end of Japan?s longest recession since World War II. But you know what they say about statistics. "There?s not much evidence here of a genuine economic turnaround," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "This is a natural reaction to the huge amount of money that has been dumped into the economy by government spending. It may only be a dead-cat bounce...
Receiving honorary degrees in this morning's ceremony are: Kenneth J. Arrow, Bernard Bailyn, Herbert Block, Louise Bourgeois, Andrew F. Brimmer, David R. Cox, Alan Greenspan, Julia Kristeva and Mario Vargas Llosa...
...Bernard Bailyn...