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...Dell's shares trade below $9, down from a 52-week high of over $26. If its next quarterly earnings are weak, investors will almost certainly knock the shares down again. That will leave fewer people...
...right. Fallon, one of the founders of Corcairdhearg, has been Irish dancing since he was about five years old. The two other founders, Moira E. Forberg ’11 and Alana C. M. O’Brien ’11 have also both been dancing for almost 15 years. O’Brien and Fallon are both still very active in the arena of competitive Irish dancing, often traveling to compete in regional, national, and even world championships. Both competed in the World Championships of Irish Dance in Belfast, North Ireland last April after placing at the North...
...event wore on, even Obama did not seem that into it, a surprising misfire for a politician who has long excelled at striking the right tone at public appearances. He was almost grinning as he described the "recklessness and greed" of the traders in AIG's financial-products division, a reckless band of wealthy incompetents who made bets they could not pay for, leaving the American taxpayer on the hook for as much as $173 billion in emergency funds - an enormous sum that works out to about $600 for every man, woman and child in America. "How do they justify...
...like Obama, Bernanke and the rest of the political élite who lined up Monday to share their outrage are rather powerless to act. If AIG failed, almost all experts agree, the damage to the entire financial system would be horrific. So the leadership has little to do but posture. "Unconscionable," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. "Outrageous," said her Republican counterpart, John Boehner. Senator Chris Dodd, chair of the banking committee that failed to regulate AIG, called on the executives to "voluntarily" forgo their bonuses. The best the government looks able to do is insist on some tough...
...Jury Team is opening its doors to almost anyone: "If a few oddballs or eccentrics run, I don't mind it," Bell says. "It's time for a people's insurrection." But organizers still intend to weed out extremists: during registration, candidates must click a box confirming that they won't discriminate on the basis of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation, and that they will behave honestly and selflessly. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...