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...answer, the Hastings learned, is to direct that energy on themselves and their marriage. "We have a date night every week, without fail," Erin says. Taking time to be with your partner and to think about each other is always important. Ideally before the wedding, Greer says, couples should take a step back and remind themselves of at least two things: the reasons their partner is the right person for them, and that their beloved's annoying little habits aren't going to disappear...
...Geithner locked horns with Sheila Bair from his perch atop the New York Fed, he'll have to work even more closely with her from the Treasury building on the other side of the White House, as the two will be key players in saving any big banks that fail. They will also control the shape of any mortgage bailout for Americans who are at risk of losing their homes, an initiative many experts say is necessary if Washington is to get the economy moving again...
...assets at a discount, if any of the bank's creditors or trading partners want their money back. That would save Citi from having to write down its assets, which is what would wipe out its equity and send it into bankruptcy. Of course, if the bank does fail, the government could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars of debt...
...current undergraduates.While Gladwell’s theory might not predict Harvard’s demographics, he isn’t trying to advance a catch-all explanation for success. He’s not claiming that one factor, like birth month, could be the primary determinant of whether we fail or whether we make it big. Rather, his contention is that success is the interaction of multiple external factors and the individual’s responses to them. Still, Gladwell is unable to clearly articulate why any of this matters. Successful people get lucky, much luckier than we like...
Faced with the choice of bailing out the ailing auto industry or letting it fail, Congress picked a brave third option: procrastination...