![]() The twin appointments could represent a political sweet spot for Biden who would need to get both appointments through a deeply divided Senate. Kugler, a Colombian-American, would be the central bank's first-ever Latina governor and would fill the position left vacant by Jefferson. ![]() central bank's second-ever Black vice chair.He would fill the spot vacated by Lael Brainard, who in February left to become one of Biden's chief economic advisors. Jefferson, a former economics professor who has been on the seven-seat Fed Board for just under a year, would be the U.S. ![]() ![]() President Joe Biden is likely to nominate current Federal Reserve Governor Philip Jefferson to be the central bank's vice chair and World Bank economist Adriana Kugler as a governor, the New York Times reported on Monday. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But amid unprecedented troubles Lincoln saw opportunity-the chance to legislate in the centralizing spirit of the “more perfect union” that had first drawn him to politics. The government had no authority to raise taxes, no federal bank, no currency. Even before the Confederacy’s secession, the United States Treasury had run out of money. ![]() ![]() Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Lowenstein is a lucid stylist, able to explain financial matters to readers who lack specialized knowledge.” -Eric Foner, New York Times Book Reviewįrom renowned journalist and master storyteller Roger Lowenstein, a revelatory financial investigation into how Lincoln and his administration used the funding of the Civil War as the catalyst to centralize the government and accomplish the most far-reaching reform in the country’s history “ Ways and Means, an account of the Union’s financial policies, examines a subject long overshadowed by military narratives. makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.” -Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal ![]() ![]() ![]() Below is a lightly edited and condensed transcript of our conversation. I spoke with Vanderbilt about how what we like is influenced by both culture and human nature, how being able to analyze things helps us like them more, and how the Internet changes the game. A lot of the time, they can’t say why they like something, they just know that they do. Sometimes they pretend to like movies they never really watch or music they don’t actually listen to. Sometimes they like what their friends like. Sometimes, people just prefer the familiar. He examines the broad collection of likes and dislikes that make up “taste,” and how they come to be. ![]() What determines people’s preferences is a fuzzy, hard-to-pin-down process, but Tom Vanderbilt takes a stab at it in his new book, You May Also Like. ![]() In the time of the Facebook thumbs up, what does it mean to “like” something? What is it that makes humans decide they prefer one thing over another, so that you click replay on one song all day and cover your ears whenever you hear another in public? And how do Netflix and Spotify and other recommendation engines seem to know your taste as well or better than you do sometimes? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her interlocutors speak in long, arcing monologues that swoop from the minute banality of personal experience to touch on the great themes of human life and society and back again. ![]() “She lends herself as a filter,” as Judith Thurman wrote in a New Yorker Profile, last year. Like “ Transit” and “ Kudos,” the two books that followed it, “Outline” serves as a record not so much of Faye’s own thoughts and actions but of those described to her by the people she encounters. On a brief trip to Greece, Faye, the novel’s protagonist, does very little, and says even less. In 2014, the novelist Rachel Cusk published “ Outline,” the first novel in a trilogy whose style was markedly different from anything that she had previously written. ![]() ![]() The teen's efforts to put her best foot forward pay off in ways she couldn't imagine. But in Bauer's sure hand, Jenna's compassion and burgeoning confidence bubble up when she needs them most and slowly harden into a solid, likeable core. That leaves little time for having fun or for exploring a budding romance with Charlie from the local doughnut shop. Gladstone's insistence) a new hire who once shoplifted shoes from the store. Gladstone's recent merger with a larger company is fraught with problems and Jenna finds herself helping to untangle an unpleasant web of corporate corruption. Bauer takes Jenna emotionally deeper here, as the heroine struggles in her home life-she is trying to accept her now-absent alcoholic father and be supportive of her mother and younger sister-and these challenges are always on her mind, even as things get especially chaotic at work. The road to a job well done is littered with detours, however. ![]() , readers accompany Jenna on a personal and professional journey that leaves her standing taller than ever in her Rolling Walkers. In this fittingly kicky companion to Rules of the Road Lots of teenage girls go crazy for shoes, but 16-year-old Jenna Boller is gaga for the shoe business-especially as it's run by her employer and role model Madeline Gladstone, matriarch of Gladstone Shoes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In Parts Three and Four, Morgenstern shows how to apply these steps to every area of your life and work including offices, home offices, mobile offices, bathrooms, closets, kitchens, kid's rooms, garages, schedules and technology. She explains the basic steps – analyze, strategize, attack – to use on every organizing project, no matter how big or small, and shares tricks of the trade for avoiding common pitfalls. In Parts One and Two, Morgenstern demystifies the process of getting organized by showing you just what has been holding you back. Organizing from the inside out – designing a system based on your life goals, natural habits and psychological needs – ensures, once and for all, a system that won't break down. Veteran professional organizer Julie Morgenstern offers a fresh, insightful approach to the organizing process- by sharing the secrets and techniques she has used for nearly a decade with clients nationwide. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the 1838 reading of the story, the “unusual excitement on the subject of religion” and the clergy who were “active in getting up and promoting this extraordinary scene of religious feeling” led to “confusion and bad feeling.” 1 Smith did not know which minister to follow. He was looking for forgiveness, as were others who flocked to the revivals in his neighborhood. His first account, written in 1832 and discovered in the archives in the 1960s, suggests that earlier Smith may have understood the experience as about the state of his soul. Initially, however, Smith may have understood the vision differently. That is the story of the account drafted in 1838. ![]() ![]() When the heavenly personages appeared, he asked them which church to join, and they replied none of them. He was confused by the melee of voices coming from ministers of various denominations and wanted guidance. One of the questions we ask about Joseph Smith’s First Vision is, What did visions mean in those days? How did Smith understand his encounter with God? The most established interpretation is that questions about the churches prompted Smith to pray. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Catholic Church ordered a brutal massacre to silence them forever.” So the Church began to … hunt them down and kill them.” In another clip Langdon puts it even more succinctly: “The Illuminati were a secret society dedicated to scientific truth. In the 1500s they started meeting in secret because they were concerned about the Church’s inaccurate teachings, and they were dedicated to scientific truth. Here’s how Tom Hanks’s Langdon describes the relevant history in an exchange with Vatican police head Ernesto Olivetti: “The Illuminati … were physicists, mathematicians, astronomers. ![]() ![]() While the new film doesn’t repeat the specific charge of the murder of Copernicus, it maintains the larger historical context set forth in Brown’s Angels & Demons: the Church’s murderous persecution of science, especially in the Illuminati, a secret society that Brown claims counted Copernicus, Galileo and Bernini among its members. On May 15, the new Ron Howard adaptation of Angels & Demons - reworked as a sequel rather than a prequel to Howard’s 2006 smash The Da Vinci Code - will bring another installment of the Dan Brown version of history to millions of moviegoers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I will admit the first half didn’t appeal to me. I was NOT expecting that twist at all and I swear my heart skipped several beats while reading. You know that feeling when a book doesn’t really make sense until you get to the end and all the pieces slot into place and you want to scream, laugh and show off your amazing deduction skills all at the same time? He’s revealed to be a cannibal who had kidnapped all those girls. Nadya is transformed into a crow and watches as Karina leaves the house and Maxim devours the gingerbread girl. She gives up two fingers for Magda to create a gingerbread girl who returns home. Time passes and Nadya decides she wants to leave. The witch, Magda, teaches her about potions and asks her what she wants. Karina treats Nadya badly so the girl runs away to a witch’s house. When a famine hits the town, their mother dies, Maxim doesn’t get enough jobs for his work and girls start disappearing. Nadya and her brother Havel are children of the woodcutter Maxim Grushov. ![]() |