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...Jacques Plante was seen as a wimp. After the Montreal Canadiens goalie was struck in the face by a flying puck while playing against the New York Rangers on Nov. 1, 1959, the future Hall-of-Famer refused to return to the ice sans protection. Much to the scorn of his coach and fans, Plante returned from the locker room with a crude home-made fiberglass mask in place. Though coach Toe Blake wanted Plante to remove the mask after his wounded face healed, the Canadiens rattled off an 18-game win streak, despite Plante's obscured face. The complaints...
...tried to invite Niall Ferguson but he’s in New York,” someone was overheard saying. “He was here this morning… that guy travels like [censored...
...have always known him to be a nice guy, someone who gave me rides, with a sweet wife. I was floored when I heard this." - Batya Medad, a resident of a nearby settlement who knew Teitel. (New York Times...
...horrified by the fact that there are elements of Israeli society, Jews who feel justified in taking the lives of other Jews because of their beliefs." - Leah Ortiz, mother of Ami Ortiz, 15, who was badly hurt by an explosive allegedly planted by Teitel. (New York Times...
...Ominously for Beijing, the value of the RMB may be one of the few things the fractious American political class seems to agree on. Recently, Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and columnist for the New York Times - and a steadfast Obama cheerleader - wrote a column ripping Beijing for its "outrageous" currency policy. He was followed late last week by Martin Feldstein, a former chief economic adviser to Ronald Reagan, who made a similar argument in the pages of the Financial Times. Both noted that the RMB-dollar peg is badly hurting economies in Europe and East Asia...