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...love for independent film and a lack of money. The festival, then called the U.S. Film Festival, began in Salt Lake City in 1978 as a way for founders Sterling Van Wagenen, John Earle and Cirina Hampton Catania to attract more filmmakers to Utah. Redford was its first board chairman. The inaugural event focused on retrospectives of classic American films, with a few awards given to new works. It was moderately successful, with long lines for screenings and a few high-profile panelists like actress Cicely Tyson, but the organizers were left in the red - prompting them to hold another...
...with all of the banks was ridiculous," says Thomas Adams, a lawyer at Paykin Krieg and Adams, LLP, and a former managing director at bond insurer FGIC. "But that seems to be the working logic at the Federal Reserve." (See TIME's 2009 Person of the Year: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke...
...Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ’75 faces a challenging reconfirmation battle in the U.S. Senate, he has garnered lukewarm support from some Harvard economists...
...grown increasingly unclear in the past week whether Bernanke—whose term as Federal Reserve chairman expires Sunday—can garner the needed 60 votes in the Senate to be reconfirmed...
Former Economics Department Chair James H. Stock credited Bernanke with coming up with “creative options” to combat the economic crisis. He called Bernanke “far and away the best choice” because the learning curve for a new chairman would be overwhelming...