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Contrast that with the tortured, Delphic utterances that have become legend with Greenspan. His wife, NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell, has joked that he proposed twice before she understood what he was saying. After tongue-twisting comments by Greenspan to the Economic Club in New York City in 1995, headlines reflected the confusion he had sown. GREENSPAN HINTS FED MAY CUT INTEREST RATES, read the Washington Post. DOUBTS VOICED BY GREENSPAN ON A RATE CUT, said the New York Times. But the Maestro was clear about one thing: "Since becoming a central banker I have learned to mumble with great incoherence...
...other hand, if a girl you think you dislike is being put up, consider her in the same way and give her a fair chance before you conclude that you don’t want her in the club. * BE HONEST (in either direction) when discussing punches. It is understood among all members that we all have the interests and values of our current members and the club at heart. We will all remember that punch decisions are not personal attacks or judgments on members or their friends. * BE PRO-ACTIVE about getting to know as many punches as possible...
...wrote on the program’s website, “All of us at PON are deeply impressed with the type of extraordinary negotiations Sadako Ogata undertook during her tenure at the United Nations. Her skilled negotiations on behalf of refugees saved many lives, yet are less well understood than many higher profile diplomatic efforts.” Prior to receiving the award, Ogata spoke at a panel discussion and stressed the important role first-hand knowledge plays in innovation. “All breakthrough ideas come from being involved,” she said. She cautioned against taking...
...Therefore, plunge back into books--not texts read in pixels off the screen, but read, rather, with their sweet weight of thought held in the hand. Go where others are not--to wonderful unread writers like Seneca or Plutarch, for example, whom I read during our blackout. They understood certain essentials that we have misplaced...
...face and hands. But when I visited him the following day, living in a tent with his mother, I learned that Nawfiz was still so traumatized that after first crying out in terror at "the darkness," he had then stopped speaking altogether. His mother cannot tell whether Nawfiz understood when she told him that his older brother had died, entombed in the same school...