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Words can hurt. That's a lesson Ben Bernanke learned not long after being confirmed in January 2006 as the head of the U.S. Federal Reserve. At a Washington dinner a few months later, Bernanke responded to a question from CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, who asked whether the media and financial markets were right to think that he had signaled the Fed was done raising interest rates. "He said, flatly, no," she reported on her program at about 3:15 p.m. the following Monday, causing stock prices to drop sharply before the market closed. He called that move a mistake...
...station, Kim sat the young man down on the floor of commanding officer Lieutenant Karim's office and began to question him, in tandem with the Iraqis. A television played a muted Arabic melodrama in the corner. The young man denied everything. His eyes darted, periodically, to a length of rubber tubing leaning against Karim's desk. As the questioning continued, the Iraqis occasionally passed the tubing back and forth, and one of them whispered something in the young...
When Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg jets into Washington this Sunday he plans on asking some tough questions. Germany's new Economy Minister is due to meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and bosses at embattled American carmaker General Motors. Opel, a Germany-based division of GM, is fast running out of cash and GM and Opel bosses recently went cap in hand to Berlin to ask for $4.25 billion in state aid. In return, GM say they will restructure Opel by cutting costs and loosening the company's ties with the parent company in Detroit. Opel would become an autonomous...
...senior, you will get n+1, and you will be at the top of the lottery, so you will grab one of the best rooms available. Juniors will get a pretty solid n room. Sophomores will get a smile from Beth Terry (House Administrator) and a big fat question mark. Flyby called its sophomore 2-room double "The Cell," and only half-jokingly. Walkthroughs are present but often avoidable, and Claverly overflow housing is very nice for those who don't mind being a bit of distance from a dining hall...
...President is attacking every form of dissent," says Ayesha Siddiqa, a political and military analyst. "His very authoritarian behavior is raising a serious question: are we looking at Pakistan's Mr. Putin? And how does one deal with a President who breaks all promises?" Sensing opportunity, Sharif has cast himself as a man of principle and a victim of Zardari's excesses. Unburdened by the pressures of power, the Punjabi industrialist has been pushing the government to reinstate Chaudhry for over a year now. He quit the coalition government after Zardari backtracked on agreements to do so. A confrontation...