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...terrorism is to carry out your threats - that's what terrifies people. Take Lebanon's Hizballah, an organization whose early days were steeped in terrorism: it made a point of never botching an attack, bombing or kidnapping. So when Hizballah said it was not going to stop until it drove the West out of Lebanon, that threat carried a lot of weight. And the credibility of Hizballah's threat convinced U.S. President Ronald Reagan that Lebanon was lost, which prompted him to withdraw the Marines who were stationed there. In the Middle East, this is not stale history...
...blew it before the crisis. This is true. Bernanke had no idea the financial system was in danger, and some of his comments look painfully ridiculous in retrospect. That said, he had a lot of company on the Clueless Express, and it's not clear how much his cluelessness drove the crisis. Bernanke makes a convincing case that the remarkably loose monetary policies he supported under his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, did not create the housing bubble; it's amusing to see longtime Greenspan fanboys like John McCain trashing Bernanke for insufficient foresight. And while the Fed should have provided stronger...
...drove back into Cambridge this past weekend, the river sparkled, glossed over with a sheet of ice. There seemed to be a firmness to the ice, a solidity that beckoned… But beware: DO NOT attempt to walk across the iced-over Charles. If you do so, YOU WILL DIE. (Not actually. That was hyperbole. But really, it’s actually unsafe...
When his team fell behind, Lin stepped up. Finding little success from long range, the star guard drove to the basket and drew opportunities at the foul line...
...Edwards' future depends on what he wants to do. If he's set on being in the public eye, he's leaning into a stiff wind. If he just wants to do public service, he'll be fine. Before he drove his career into a crater for an astrology-spouting blonde, he had a good record on fighting poverty, and the media can be relied on to ignore him if he continues to work on that issue. He, among many others, went to Haiti this week, without cameras. John Edwards may never be liked again, but with...