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Five hours southwest of Paris by car lies the Charente, a lush agricultural area known for sappy melons, slimy escargots, earthy mushrooms and, of course, one of the world's most famed spirits, Cognac. A perfect winter sipper, Cognac warms the body and, if you let your imagination run wild, the soul. With its edgy burn, it also has plenty of nuance and spice, which make it ideal for the festive, mellow moments of the holiday season...
...like Paul Volcker before him, is a proven inflation fighter. But Bernanke shows signs of tolerating rising prices. When the economy was threatened with deflation (generally falling prices) a few years ago, "he among all the Fed governors was most vocal about the need to generate inflation," says Alan Wild, a global fixed-income manager for Barings Bank. In November 2002, Bernanke publicly spoke of options, citing Milton Friedman's famous "helicopter drop" of money into the pockets of consumers via tax rebates to stimulate spending, which was radical stuff from a central banker. Some are now worried that Bernanke...
...Spirit They’ve Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished,” Animal Collective’s debut album, stands as a testament to the band’s penchant for wild, digital tones, both stretched thin as paper and heaped on each other to bombard the listener with an impenetrable wall of sound...
...clear metallic strumming, a spectral Avey Tare, and a palpable, wild ambience that floats in and out of the speakers, give rise to an entrancingly undomesticated pop song...
...citing their unwillingness to make the leap to digital. That last comment, along with the aforementioned quotation about Star Wars being a blip, reveal what just might be the central tenet of the McCallum ethos: constant rebellion against the force of film-industry conservatism, all in the name of wild entertainment “You’re losing 15% of your audience every year because the adventure of going to the theater is no longer there,” McCallum says. “The average kid—you know, you’ll go to a major...