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...Leer’s presence, calling him “the most progressive force in the coal industry,” and said he found the interruption objectionable. “[The activists] didn’t listen, they didn’t state their names, and it was rude,” he said. “There are lots of diverging views in this series. We must be tolerant of ideas, even those we disagree with.” —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu...
Economists can be forgiven for being a little loopy these days. The scope and suddenness of the ongoing financial crisis have been a rude awakening for many. "No one expected the problems to run this wide and deep," says a Harvard Ph.D. in attendance. "It's chilling." That's why many of the more accessible jokes of the evening involve bashing U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, President Bush and just about everyone on Wall Street. "Italian Mafia are gangsters who make offers you can't refuse, whereas financial mafia are bankers who make you loans...
...tell where one man stops and the other begins. "They had instant chemistry when they started working together in the 1990s," says a mutual friend. But the question of who will have the most influence on policy is still a fair one. Summers is famously rumpled, brilliant and occasionally rude. During the Asian crisis, he woke up his Japanese counterpart when he found out the Tokyo government was trying to arrange a bailout fund outside the purview of the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury. "I thought you were my friend!" he told the startled Japanese bureaucrat. Summers...
...Most of them I can't call him in front of you. You know, a bit rude." - Prince William, on the nicknames he calls Prince Harry, during an an interview with Matt Lauer, Dateline, June...
...their local government. The vast majority had no chance to fight and nothing to fight with and probably thought they would live to see their families again, not knowing what evil awaited them. Calling them or any defenseless people "passive victims" - even to refute such a notion - is ignorant, rude and insulting. It would have been more accurate and thoughtful to have said that some Jews found a way to fight back, and did. Richard Allen Cohen, CHICAGO...