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...years old, Bernanke won the South Carolina state spelling bee, despite being initially told that he had misspelled a word. Bernanke, certain he was right, left the stage anyway. "He came back on stage and said he had spelled it correctly," his mother Edna recalled to the Washington Post. "And he was right." Bernanke was later eliminated at the national bee when he misspelled the word edelweiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...turning out to be the most cumbersome and embarrassing of the government's neighborhood improvement projects. Word made it out recently that employees in the division that caused most of AIG's losses would be getting $450 million in bonuses. Some of the media put the number lower than that, but Congress and The White House have already complained loudly that any amount of money paid to an operation that helped undermine AIG's viability should get nothing. Edward Libby, the feckless former head of Allstate (ALL) who was brought in to turn AIG around, apparently did not know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIG's Bailout and the Price of Doing Business | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...house with one of the worst reputations on campus—but is the word on the street substantiated? Your affiliation with Dunster House will haunt you, and it's up to you to enjoy its good side and forget that everybody else will make sure you remember how much it supposedly sucks...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: The Housing Crisis: Dunster House | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

...even if one were to take Doctrinaires at their word and assume that they solely desire the elevation of public discourse, and even if one were to ignore the unconstitutionality of the means to this end, a critical flaw still lingers. If the FCC is given the authority to dictate what constitutes “balanced” coverage of the issues, then the FCC is given dominion over the definition of “balanced.” There are far more than only two sides to every debate, and yet the assumption goes that the FCC would only...

Author: By Dhruv K. Singhal | Title: The Tyranny of Fairness | 3/15/2009 | See Source »

...House List: Pf-air. The Pf-open list is a pf-orum for pfohosers to add a "pf" in pf-ront of every pf-reaking word that begins with an "f." We get it. "Pfoho" has a silent "p." Not that pf-ucking pf-unny after the pf-irst pf-ifty times...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: The Housing Crisis: Pforzheimer House | 3/14/2009 | See Source »

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