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While the Treasury still has about $480 billion to spend, it's not clear how much of what is left will be used for direct investments into banks. Shortly after the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act was passed by Congress, the Treasury said $250 billion was going to be used to buy shares in banks. That would leave $450 billion to buy up troubled mortgage bonds. (Read "18 Tough Questions [and Answers] About the Bailout...
...friend “Chocolate” to the beat of “Discovery Channel.” One lucky audience member even received not one, but two lap dances from these lovely ladies before bolting out of the dining hall. The Disney theme continued onto the closing act, as Adams House Masters John G. “Sean” Palfrey ’67 and Judith S. Palfrey ’67 waltzed as Beauty and the Beast, respectively. Even dining hall manager David A. Seley became a juicy piece of meat as he showed...
...allies, and a source at the recent South African Development Community (SADC) summit negotiations said Mbeki will not stand up to Mugabe. Mbeki has supported Mugabe’s control over ministry appointments. According to the Zimbabwe Independent, Tsvangirai listed to the SADC examples showing that Mbeki could not act “fairly and impartially...
...sudden spate of sabotage capped nearly two years of sporadic vandalism to French rail lines that successive inquiries attributed to isolated, disgruntled trouble-makers. But the recent incidents showed more skill, and their perpetrators seemed able to act at will without detection. For that reason, French rail users were already rattled even before the coordinated attacks of Nov. 8. The saboteurs struck in virtually all corners of the nation without warning, and applied a high degree of knowledge and technical ability in putting the destructive metal hooks in place without being killed by the 25,000-volt power lines...
...After a further act of sabotage was reported Monday in southwestern France, a decision was made to group individual investigations under the direction of France's centralized counter-terror operation in Paris, which collated all the information police and intelligence services had related to the inquiries. Within 24 hours, officials had narrowed their scope down to a group of "autonomous anarchists" whose radical positions and increasingly restless activity - including protesting during a G8 summit in Poland last year - had led French intelligence services to place some of its members under surveillance...