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Washington Times •computer error is blamed by after Web site of pairs a story headlined "36 Chicago area students killed sets record" with a photo of Malia and Sasha Obama, who currently attend school in Washington D.C. and weren't even mentioned in the article as it had nothing whatsoever to do with them...
...summer of 2007 you appeared on TV screaming that Ben Bernanke had no idea how bad things were on Wall Street. After what has happened, weren't you too calm? -Gonzalo Soto Campero, Mexico City A lot of people criticized me for being off the deep end when I shouted from the rooftops that things were falling apart. Then a lot of people criticized me for not shouting it from the rooftops. For the most part, I've been trashed for everything I've done. (See pictures of Jim Cramer's career...
...benefit concert at the Paris Opera, among other things. America, in return, was responsible for the statue's base and pedestal, to be constructed within the existing walls of Fort Wood, an Army post on what was then known as Bedloe's Island. At first, most Americans weren't fans of Lady Liberty; out-of-town newspapers and political leaders scoffed at the idea of backing a "local" New York project. Momentum began to shift as Joseph Pulitzer used his New York World to talk up the effort, prompting benefit balls, theatrical performances and donations from schoolchildren to help finish...
...that weren't enough, GM predicted in February that bankruptcy, which now looks inevitable after the company's disastrous first quarter, could cost as much as $100 billion...
Remarkably, the power of stereotype threat was enough to overcome true aptitude: even people who, according to screening tests conducted before the experiment, generally had good working memories and weren't prone to anxiety - in short, great test-takers - performed worse after being reminded of their age. The power of stereotype is so strong that it can overwhelm many of our other traits, which means that what you learned in kindergarten is true: you're only as good as you expect...