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...filmmakers deliberately steered clear of revealing any personal or intimate details of her captivity. "We respected her boundaries," says Patricia Schlesinger, head of the culture and documentary department at NDR. But Kampusch speaks openly about Priklopil, whom she never refers to by name but simply as "the perpetrator" or "the offender." "I forgave him instantly. Had I not forgiven him, I would have been filled with so much hatred and negative feelings that I couldn't have survived it all - that would have left me psychologically and physically damaged," she says. "The offense was the result of a kind...
...TIME's 2008 Person of the Year: Barack Obama...
...actually a reasonable question. Bernanke was TIME's Person of the Year 2009, and at the time we urged Congress to put politics aside and confirm him to a second term as Federal Reserve chairman. Much of the opposition that's been building lately to Bernanke's confirmation consists of Republicans who want to obstruct anything President Obama wants and Democrats who want to obstruct anything Wall Street wants. But while Bernanke performed brilliantly during the worst financial panic in 75 years, it's fair to ask why he isn't doing more now to fight unemployment (the left...
...spent nearly six hours with Bernanke for TIME's Person of the Year story, and I asked versions of the "Now what?" question a dozen times. Bernanke always left wiggle room, but he made it clear that he basically intends to stay the course. After pouring unprecedented money into the financial system to try to revive the economy, he has no plans for additional monetary stimulus because he doubts it would create many jobs. He also made it clear that he's in no hurry to start pulling money out of the economy to try to fight inflation because...
...Depression and learned how financial panic can lead to economic calamity. He bailed out bankers not to reward their bad behavior but to prevent that bad behavior from crippling the global economy. It's not his fault the markets like him. (See why TIME chose Ben Bernanke as Person of the Year...