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...meter burglary are not uncommon. In 2006, a New Hampshire couple was charged with stealing over $3,000 worth of parking meters, and this year, five people were charged in New York City with collectively stealing over $250,000 worth of meters. Gannon’s lawyer, Paul Mishkin, could not be reached for comment. Gannon is currently in custody and being held on a $5,000 bail...
...Bernanke era promises to be toughest on Fed watchers who have made a living interpreting Greenspan. "Ben is crystal clear in both his writings and his speaking," says Frederic Mishkin, a friend and Columbia University economist. In Bernanke's experience, being direct works. As an 11-year-old, he won the South Carolina state spelling bee--but only after contesting a judge's ruling that he had misspelled a word. "He walked off, then came back and said, 'Excuse me, sir, but I spelled that word correctly,'" recalls his mother Edna. Sure enough, a tape recording proved him right. Bernanke...
...request--into issues outside his official domain, he could have set a dangerous precedent for his successor, who could be blamed for problems beyond the Fed's control. "If you get someone who is not as good as Greenspan, it can lead to attacks on the Fed," says Frederic Mishkin, an economics professor at Columbia Business School and a former research director at the New York City branch of the Federal Reserve...
Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Kim Deitch (Pantheon; 2002) Ted Mishkin, an early animator, has a problem. Is his creation, the mischievous, bi-pedal cat Waldo, actually real? Mishkin thinks so, and it drives him insane in this darkly delightful novel. Deitch, an underground comix pioneer, has a style that combines the quaintness of antique toys with the woes of modern life. Full Review
...fantasy of his books. Often he insists that they are true stories. The introduction of "Boulevard" tells of how, as a teenager, Deitch visited the home of an old animator's widow and her reclusive son. Later in the book you are led to conclude they were Al Mishkin's widow and Nathan. Did Deitch really visit such people? Is Waldo meant to be an actual demon from hell or just a hallucination? Deitch never lets...