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Calling all three "distinguished members of FAS," Nesson explained that they have been called upon to make a judgment in a matter of great import to Knowles, who was responsible for their appointment to the Docket Committee...
...Gomez?" you're probably asking. Good question. With many answers. They are the latest British import, replete with echoes of music from blues and swamp to rock and alternative. They are the winners of Britain's prestigious Mercury Music Prize for "Album of the Year" for their debut, Bring It On. They are a group of young musicians desperately attempting to avoid real world jobs (take note, seniors). And, ultimately, they are five chill guys--Ian Ball, Paul Blackburn, Tom Gray, Ben Ottewell and Olly Peacock--trying to play the music they want to hear...
...Gomez?" you're probably asking. Good question. With many answers. They are the latest British import, replete with echoes of music from blues and swamp to rock and alternative. They are the winners of Britain's prestigious Mercury Music Prize for "Album of the Year" for their debut, Bring It On. They are a group of young musicians desperately attempting to avoid real world jobs (take note, seniors). And, ultimately, they are five chill guys--Ian Ball, Paul Blackburn, Tom Gray, Ben Ottewell and Olly Peacock--trying to play the music they want to hear...
Simply put, as an interesting and inspirational speaker, Greenspan just doesn't match up to the world leaders and Cold War heroes who have paraded through the Yard in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that Greenspan will not--in fact, cannot--say anything of import, because if he did, it would cause significant shocks to the world economy. In a now-famous incident in 1996, Greenspan commented that gains in the stock market at the time might have been caused by "irrational exuberance." In response to his skeptical comments, markets around the world tumbled...
...little book sold 84,000 copies, caused a huge stir and made Keynes an instant celebrity. But its real import was to be felt decades later, after the end of World War II. Instead of repeating the mistake made almost three decades before, the U.S. and Britain bore in mind Keynes' earlier admonition. The surest pathway to a lasting peace, they then understood, was to help the vanquished rebuild. Public investing on a grand scale would create trading partners that could turn around and buy the victors' exports, and also build solid middle-class democracies in Germany, Italy and Japan...