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...14th consecutive year of growth) has experienced the longest expansion in output since quarterly measures began in 1959. With a booming stockmarket, a strong dollar, buoyant commodity prices and an unemployment rate that could soon fall below 5%, Macfarlane faced a parliamentary committee last Friday to explain the bank's actions, statements and thinking. For "Big Mac", as close to a rock star in local financial circles as you could get, and the four grave-faced central bankers who serve as his backing crew, it's a community service obligation in an era of policy transparency. While the economic illiterates...
...scenes--it would be disrespectful, he says--but the producers are creating a trust fund for Turpin's family. Starting next month, millions of people will watch The Contender and feel they know Turpin. Yet his life ended in an act that not even those closest to him can explain. It turns out that in reality--actual reality--people don't reveal all in a soliloquy. And Rocky does not get a sequel. --With reporting by Sean Scully/Philadelphia
...book Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz explain how to create a web of contacts, colleagues, friends and mentors. Some highlights...
Chris: Another year and another night of Grammys, and slowly the awards slip further and further from any kind of relevance. Pomp and show, tribute and politics; it’s possible I’m just being cynical but I have no other way to explain how little I care about the outcome of last week’s Grammy awards. Nonetheless, I shall bash. This year’s Grammys simply hardened my opinion that the mainstream critical and commercial machinations are perfectly content with a steady stream of tributes to elder generations and a short list...
Damrosch, whose course Wit and Humor tries to explain what makes a good joke funny, is a little bit more established in the department than his newly arrived colleague, Wood, author of The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel. But that didn’t stop either one from agreeing to an FM-orchestrated humor smackdown...