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...years, it's almost impossible to believe that anyone could have survived the ordeal. Yet the Austrian kidnapping victim not only made it out of the dungeon where an engineer named Wolfgang Priklopil had imprisoned her as a child but also emerged a remarkably confident and self-assured young woman...
...theory about the popularity of skinny jeans is that, sadly, skinny jeans are used as tools for improving one’s self-image when a mirror is nowhere to be found...
...College has not yet chosen to foster religious dialogue in this way. There are many students who self-identify somewhere between pious and skeptical, and their interests have been unjustly neglected for fear of controversy. The University needs to facilitate discussion for those students who are interested in faith but are not yet ready to turn to a particular denomination...
...bigger than life. Obama is in many ways an ordinary guy (not unlike brush-clearing Bush and shorts-wearing Clinton). Scenes of him rhapsodizing about ESPN or headed out for burgers serve to humanize Obama and are certainly an appealing window into his real-life self. But through stagecraft and style, Reagan was able to be both an accessible and a towering figure. The Democrat in the White House needs to be more imposing and less familiar in order to wow his friends and strike fear into the hearts of his enemies. Plainspoken speeches, richly symbolic events and well-timed...
...rest of the answer is that Bernanke believes a Fed chairman needs to act like he's worried about inflation - and actually worry about inflation - even when he doesn't think it's around the corner. Inflation fears may not be justified by data today, but they can be self-fulfilling tomorrow, and the hawks who harbor them are quite influential on Wall Street. If markets and Chinese bondholders start to lose confidence in the value of the U.S. dollar, that could trigger another panic, regardless of the rationality of their fears. A little inflation might be a good thing...