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...served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour." - Bernanke during a speech in January 2005. (Washington Post, November...
...under increased scrutiny as a result of the global recession, however, the Fed chief saw fit to grant the first television interview since his appointment to 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. The last time a Fed chair gave a television interview was in 1987 when Alan Greenspan appeared on Meet the Press - an interview that was followed the next week by the largest single-day drop in stock market history. So why Bernanke's change of heart? He responded to that question quite plainly: "It's an extraordinary time. This is a chance for me, I think, to talk...
...We’re going [to CRLS] to show support for the students and to let them know that the students there deserve respect,” said QSA Co-Chair Marco Chan...
...hear the interviews, the viewer must sit down in one of the fourteen chairs placed in the middle of the gallery. Each chair comes with a set of headphones and a written English translation of the interview (originally in French). Arranged in a square, the pattern of the chairs mirrors the display of the interviews on the wall so that one faces the widow head on. It is as if Varda has invited the viewer to the widows’ table, into the secret realities of their daily lives. Varda never appears on the screen when questioning...
...meeting that lasted just under three hours and spurred debate over whether UC business could be conducted more efficiently. The meeting, which included the Town Hall meeting, six pieces of legislation, and an update on the status of a cable TV project, was also punctuated by lectures from the chairs of the Council’s two major sub-committees, who scolded representatives for complaining about the two-hour duration of last week’s meeting. “I understand that the meetings have been longer,” said Student Affairs Committee Chair Tamar Holoshitz...