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Getting caught funneling money to Saddam Hussein is certainly bad for p.r. But beyond that, after former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker issued a report last week on the private sector's role in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, it isn't yet clear what will happen to the firms that allegedly handed Saddam $1.8 billion under the table...
...have become legend with Greenspan. His wife, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell, has joked that he proposed twice before she understood what he was saying. After tongue-twisting comments by Greenspan to the Economic Club in New York City in 1995, headlines reflected the confusion he had sown. GREENSPAN HINTS FED MAY CUT INTEREST RATES, read the Washington Post. DOUBTS VOICED BY GREENSPAN ON A RATE CUT, said the New York Times. But the Maestro was clear about one thing: "Since becoming a central banker I have learned to mumble with great incoherence," he said in 1987. "If I seem unduly...
Bernanke seems to want no part of that life. When he was appointed a Fed governor in Washington, the college professor "didn't have a suit to his name," says his father Philip. Bernanke realized he had to go shopping and "picked up four suits--all the same color." Before moving to Washington, he commuted from Princeton and told colleagues how he spent hours on the New Jersey Turnpike when he should have been with his wife Anna and two children, now college age. Says New York University economist Mark Gertler, who collaborated with Bernanke on several studies: "He would...
...Purple Eagles (3-3-0) got on the board first when Randy Harris fed Matt Caruana seven feet in front of the net for a goal 36 seconds into the game...
...seconds into that frame with another redirection, but blueliner Dylan Reese leveled the score five seconds into a Crimson power play, beating the goalie just as the penalty was announced over the Bright’s loudspeaker. And then Du grabbed the lead for good. Rookie Jimmy Fraser fed Du in the slot, and after out-muscling his defenseman for position, Due hoisted a shot five-hole on Samuel from one knee. Said Harvard coach Ted Donato ’91, “You kind of shake your head and say, ‘Thank God he?...