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Feldstein’s peers say that he works like a human catalyst, providing the passion and vigor necessary to communicate his ideas and get them into practice...
Although Bernanke says he is unable to grant interviews prior to his CEA confirmation hearing, those economists who have taught and worked with Bernanke describe him as a “mild mannered” family man with a passion for the Boston Red Sox who has consistently excelled in the field of economics due to his independent thought and skill at public speaking...
...have policy differences. Brown, though a supporter of business and leery of tax rates that might drive the wealthy out of Britain, is considered more left-wing, or "Old Labour." He has more passion for redistributing money to the poorest than Blair, and is concerned that injecting more choice into public services will lead to unacceptably different standards of quality. But these disputes have always been "pretty subtle - the sort of thing you have to be a senior civil servant or a think-tank person to put your finger on," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society...
...spiritual than physical. Talk to women about what happens when they hit midlife hurdles - whether divorce or disease, an empty nest, the loss of a parent - and very often the response is a surprise even to them. They may first turn inward, ask the cosmic questions or retrieve some passion they put aside to make room for a career and family and adult responsibilities. Take a trip. Write a novel. Go back to school. Learn to kiteboard. But then, having done something to help themselves, they have a powerful urge to help others. Best of all is when they...
...women handle their aging parents. The escrow officer becomes a personal trainer specializing in older women. The Harvard M.B.A. with three kids opens a temp agency specializing in placing part-time manager moms. Or in the Extreme Makeover version, Martha Stewart emerges from prison kinder, gentler and declaring, "Our passion is and always should be to make life better." More and more people see not a crisis but a challenge - even an opportunity, observes Deborah Carr, a sociology professor at Rutgers University. "How are they going to spend the second half of their life? They know they're going...