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Sherman Yellen: In Praise of Bad Cooking and Good Mothers: A Thanksgiving Memory

I've never been a big fan of Halloween -- I don't scare easy and I don't believe in ghosts, not the spooky kind. Ah, but Thanksgiving! My favorite holiday; one filled with the real ghosts of my childhood. My mother Lilly -- movie star beautiful, ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Noel Coward,  Norman Rockwell,  New York Times Company,  Martha Stewart

Sherman Yellen: Why I Voted Against Michael Bloomberg (It Wasn't the 3rd Term Folly)

When I say I am an old New Yorker you can take that literally. I was born under Mayor Jimmy Walker in 1932, the year Walker fled the investigators of his corruption, and I grew up under the great Fiorello LaGuardia, who saw us through the Depression ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  Jimmy Walker,  U.S. Republican Party,  Columbia University,  Bank of America

Murder by Mortgage

It seems I've known Molly forever, at least for the fifty six years that I have been married to my wife. My wife met Molly in high school, where they suffered the terrors of Mme. Farley's French class together. They became close friends: Molly, the ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  9 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Louis XIV (musician)

Sherman Yellen: A Grab Bag of Scandals as Seen by a Rattled New Yorker

This has been a month when we have all been absorbed by the passing of the famous, the powerful, and in my case the personal - the death of my firefighter nephew, John McNamara who died as a direct result of breathing in the toxins at Ground Zero as he ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  1 Sep 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Museum of Modern Art,  John McNamara,  J.C. Penney,  Norman Siegel

Sherman Yellen: How Obama Can Pass Health Care, or F--k Disneyland

I grew up with a generous and loving father who had a temper from hell. It is not surprising that I bridle my own temper and use it sparingly noting the havoc that my father's temper caused in our family. Like Obama I am a man who prefers to reason ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  21 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  Harry Reid,  U.S. Senate

A Death In the Family

This has been a summer for famous people dying. The iconic anchor man Walter Cronkite and Frank McCourt, the notable Irish American author of Angela's Ashes, recently left the scene. I write here of another Irish American's death: my nephew by marriage, ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  9 Aug 2009
Related Topics: John McNamara,  Walter Cronkite,  Barack Obama

Sherman Yellen: And The Rains Came

This has been the wettest month of June in recent memory. Is it a coincidence that the word rain is a jumbled version of Iran where civilization has had a nervous breakdown? Is our climate having a breakdown as well? Climatologists point to global ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  29 Jun 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Meryl Streep,  Pete Seeger,  Rachel Maddow,  Rupert Murdoch

Sherman Yellen: Michael Bloomberg: Republican, Democrat, or Plutocrat?

Last October, Michael Bloomberg, New York City's Mayor, announced that he would seek to extend the city's term limits law and run for a third term in 2009, since he needed more than that silly old law limiting the Mayor to two terms, especially during ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  11 May 2009
Related Topics: Michael Bloomberg,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Henry Kissinger,  Rudy Giuliani,  Jamie Dimon

Sherman Yellen: How My Mother Fooled Me

I was one of the lucky ones. I had a great mother. The fact that I did not fully appreciate that until after her death makes me typical -- I fear -- rather than special among sons. She easily forgave my obsession with my work, more than I now forgive ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  8 May 2009

Sherman Yellen: You're Fired! So Where Are the Jobs Now?

Sorry. The question in the heading of this post isn't something I can answer. I recognize that the banking and insurance bailout which started with Bush's Paulson and goes on with Obama's Geithner has not produced the promised new jobs, or held on to ...

From SHERMAN YELLEN, Huffington Post,  19 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  John McNamara

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