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...issue of executive compensation nearly blew up the bill in the final talks, which for some staff went well past 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning. But a compromise was reached that places a tax on executive salaries and bonuses of $500,000 or more at companies in which the Treasury has bought more than $300 million in assets at auction. For companies in which the Treasury intervenes directly, a 20% surcharge on golden parachutes is instituted...
...with Harvard knocked down a peg, that left the door wide open for the Bulldogs to take control of the league lead. But just moments after the final whistle blew in Providence, Yale fell, 17-14, to the Big Red in Ithaca...
...fresh face in an unendurably long campaign, they hid her away in a kind of conspicuous vote of no-confidence - which, one can only imagine, took a toll on her. I was struck watching her in St. Paul, where she appeared after five days of relentless media pressure and blew the doubts away, that she had the jauntiness of one who knew her own gifts: knew she could connect to a crowd and raise the roof and stomp her opponent with her sensible high heels. And of course, benefit from her critics' instinct to underestimate...
...been used by militants to stage attacks on U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan. Just this week, Pakistan's army claimed to have found the wreckage of a U.S drone on its soil (the U.S., in another case of conflicting maps, said the drone had crashed in Afghanistan); militants blew up the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, killing 53; and the independent Army Times newspaper quoted a U.S. Marine alleging that last year the Pakistani military flew repeated helicopter resupply missions to aid Taliban fighters in Afghanistan...
...doubt al-Qaeda will be blamed for the Marriott attack, with the implication that only an experienced terrorist group could have carried it out. But just about anyone can make a car bomb. Designs are available are on the Internet. Karl Armstrong, the man who blew up a University of Wisconsin building in 1970, found the formula for his fertilizer car bomb in the Encyclopedia Britannica...