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Economists can be forgiven for being a little loopy these days. The scope and suddenness of the ongoing financial crisis have been a rude awakening for many. "No one expected the problems to run this wide and deep," says a Harvard Ph.D. in attendance. "It's chilling." That's why many of the more accessible jokes of the evening involve bashing U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, President Bush and just about everyone on Wall Street. "Italian Mafia are gangsters who make offers you can't refuse, whereas financial mafia are bankers who make you loans...
...1950s and '60s, God was a man named Alexander Scourby. He was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., of Greek immigrant parents and attended college in West Virginia, but he spoke in a "deep and resonant voice" (as Wikipedia puts it) and - here is the key point - with more than a touch of a British accent. Long after Britain had exhausted its resources in World War II and lost its empire, a British accent conveyed authority, dignity, power...
...core member of the Law School’s leadership team in recent years,” Faust said in a statement. “We are fortunate to be able to turn to a prospective acting dean who not only is a distinguished academic, but also has deep experience with the School’s administrative and financial matters and a close working knowledge of the ambitious initiatives the School has been pursuing...
...School's leadership team in recent years," Faust said in a statement. "Especially at this moment in the life of the Law School and the University, we are fortunate to be able to turn to a prospective acting dean who not only is a distinguished academic, but also has deep experience with the School's administrative and financial matters and a close working knowledge of the ambitious initiatives the School has been pursuing. I'm very grateful to Howell for his readiness to take on this interim role...
...McCumber started Sixty Days, it seems, almost as a pre-emptive strike against other blogs that cover Seattle. "I'll be looking for ideas as we go along," he says. But he's not averse to batting the paper's eyelids at any civic-minded Seattleite with deep pockets. "[The P-I has] so many strengths," he wrote, "and I'm going to hammer relentlessly at them as the online infomercial part of this blog continues in coming days...