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...punished by my commander," he said. "If I answer from my heart, I will lose my job." A second policeman, listening to the conversation, had fewer reservations. "America and Britain didn't come here to help the Iraqis," he interjected. "Anything you did, you did for your own benefit." With cynicism about the motivations for the war widespread in Iraq and back in Britain, any inquiry, however flawed, is surely a welcome...
...Voluntary Employee Benefit Association (VEBA), the UAW health-care trust...
...Amid the financial turmoil that followed the Revolutionary War, however, delegates to the Constitutional Convention predicted the nation might need laws that would facilitate going belly-up in an orderly fashion. The first federal bankruptcy law, which drew on English statutes, was signed in 1800 and redounded to the benefit of at least one delegate: Robert Morris of Pennsylvania, who wound up $3 million in the hole after opening his purse to Washington's army and spent three years locked...
...Book of Judges, an Israelite military leader proposes a live-and-let-live arrangement with the Ammonites: "Should you not possess what your god Chemosh gives you to possess? And should we not be the ones to possess everything that our god Yahweh has conquered for our benefit?" (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
Solomon believed Israel could benefit - economically and otherwise - by staying on good terms with nearby nations. As game theorists say, he saw relations with other nations as non-zero-sum; the fortunes of Israel and other nations were positively correlated, so outcomes could be win-win or lose-lose. His warmth toward those religions was a way of making the win-win outcome more likely...