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...More tempting for the MPs: the issue of bankers' pay. Goodwin, who said he went without a bonus last year after stepping down eight years into the job, admitted he has lost $7.4 million as RBS shares have plummeted. Amid reports that the bank plans to pay its existing staff bonuses for 2008, all four former execs agreed that changes to the bonus system should be looked at. Hornby reckoned that bonuses "do not reward the right kind of behavior" and suggested they be tied more closely to long-term performance. The 42-year-old, who also went without...
...push his $800 billion stimulus measure through a potentially ornery House-Senate conference, firm up support for a wildly unpopular financial reform package known as TARP 2, and find a replacement for Tom Daschle, who took himself out of the running for health care czar last week amid revelations of unpaid taxes...
...least for a few days, Colombians could celebrate amid the homecomings. After a Brazilian army helicopter carrying Red Cross officials plucked Lopez from the jungle and delivered him to Cali's international airport, his two sons, aged 18 and 20, nearly knocked him to the ground as they embrace him on the tarmac. The haggard but smiling former lawmaker later suggested that the guerrillas, not Uribe nor the army, have become their own worst enemies...
...unclear what restrictions remain on Khan's movements. Henny Khan, the nuclear scientist's wife, told TIME that amid "happiness" and "disbelief," the family is still trying to establish what its newfound freedom means in practice. "This has come quite suddenly. Right up to the last minute, we were not expecting a favorable outcome," she said in a telephone interview. "We know that people who were not otherwise allowed in [to visit him] have now been allowed in." In his brief remarks earlier on Friday, Khan said that he was planning to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Khan...
...orders keep him silent for long. Indeed, over the past year, as Musharraf quit office and the new government eased in, the conditions of Khan's house arrest have steadily relaxed. Last year, he was allowed to meet friends, have relatives visit and even travel to Karachi amid tight security. Toward the end of Musharraf's rule, he sparked controversy after giving a slew of interviews in which he retracted his confession and claimed that he had been forced to read a statement handed to him. Khan also claimed that the army had colluded in at least one nuclear transaction...