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...That's just the start. Feinberg will oversee the pay at the firms until each has repaid the government - or until he quits, and he has no plans to do so anytime soon. Having established a set of principles on which to base compensation for these execs, Feinberg says it will be easier to pass judgment on next year's pay packages, a process he pledges to start in January...
...buying it? There's pent-up demand among his core fans (his last book came out five years ago), but his editor at W.W. Norton, Robert Weil, thinks this book is reaching beyond Crumb's base. One sign he's right is that it's not just selling in comic book stores. Bookscan reported sales in regular bookstores increased the second week. Amazon says most of its buyers are coming from the West Coast, which is not as surprising as the cautious promotion the book got on religious blogs. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
While in custody at the army base in La Macarena, Visages receives meals, new clothes, cigarettes and even stationery to write to his family. Wearing a T-shirt, jeans and crew-cut hair, the soft-spoken former rebel doesn't look or sound especially lethal as he sits on his bunk inside a well-guarded tent and composes letters to his girlfriend, who is still involved with the FARC. But some of the troops around him can barely contain their rage, because Visages admitted to setting off a car bomb last year that killed two soldiers and badly wounded three...
...former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and oil mogul Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who had been stripped of his assets and imprisoned under Putin for fraud. Most of them were skeptical. "It is absolutely clear that one leader cannot modernize the country alone, even the strongest leader, if he has no support base of his own," Khodorkovsky wrote from his prison cell in a piece published in the daily Vedomosti newspaper on Oct. 21. (See pictures of Russia celebrating Victory...
...Putin enjoys the largest support base in Russia, with his political party, United Russia, controlling 315 of the 450 seats in the Duma. Medvedev's manifesto implied that the party's super-majority would eventually need to be broken up and its control of the bureaucratic machinery dissolved. This prospect, though seemingly impossible, provided opposition leaders with a rallying cry heading into elections on Oct. 11 to choose representatives in 76 of the country's 83 regional governments...