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Once Polaroid entered bankruptcy, Moss and her retired co-workers learned a bitter lesson--that they had no say in the security of benefits they had worked all their lives to accumulate. While the federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. (PBGC) agreed to make good on most of their basic pensions, the rest of their benefits--notably the ESOP accounts, along with retirement health care and severance packages--were canceled. The retirees, generally well educated and financially savvy, organized to try to win back some of what they had lost by petitioning bankruptcy court, which would decide how to divide...
...interference in Iraq’s affairs. Soon the world realized that the fabricated universe of neo-conservative logic was imprudent at best. Those policy makers who pushed for the Iraq war seem to have been contemptuous of the decidedly ruinous effects of their wild military excursion in the bitter Arabian deserts.When people are being killed daily, great and far reaching emotions diffuse without restraint. In a literally explosive situation like that in Iraq, it is just unreasonable to jump to issues that even nations living in peace struggle with, such as composing a national constitution, trying a dictator...
...more from MARK FUHRMAN? Well, it's going to. His book Murder in Brentwood is due out in February. And Vanity Fair has scored the first interview with the disgraced former cop. To say that Fuhrman, living on an isolated farm in Idaho and working as an electrician, is bitter about his treatment during the O.J. Simpson case is putting it mildly. Fuhrman says he found other pieces of evidence that were never pursued, including a knife box in Simpson's bathroom, dark clothes in his washing machine and a blood-stained light switch. He also claims the old Mark...
When Edmund Morris was here at Harvard in February 1978 – presumably at work on his soon-to-be-released Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880 – a bitter blizzard battered Boston and left Harvard underneath several feet of snow...
...Lethal Weapon” reestablished the buddy-cop genre. With “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” he became Hollywood’s highest paid screenwriter and went home to enjoy the smell of millions of dollar bills. And that, apparently, made him bitter. Who knew that getting paid lots of money could get you so angry...