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...group that will be capable of keeping you safe, and that group had better be one that can count on your loyalty just as you can count on its protection. If you are a member of my ethnic, racial or religious group, then we share at least some basic bond, which may be enough to ensure our loyalty to one another. I need some assurance that you will have my back, and identity is better than nothing...
...Plan E form of government, the elected Council chaired by the mayor hires the city manager, who directs most of the daily operations of local government. Healy has been city manager since 1981. During his tenure, he brought the City out of a fiscal crisis, achieving an AAA bond rating—the highest available...
...suspicion of the city's criminal-justice system is a major stumbling block. "Building trust at the grass-roots level would go a long way toward solving these witness issues," says homicide prosecutor Lisa Goldberg. But, prosecutors say, they simply don't have the luxury of waiting for that bond with the community to develop before trying to convict criminals. In the absence of trust, sometimes the only solution is to put as much pressure on witnesses as the thugs...
...unafraid is the gift that I’ve been given, and so my journey begins.” Yet, regardless of these critical flops (and be glad you were spared “Gothika”), let’s face it: There will never be a better Bond girl. Eat that, Denise! And a well-deserved kudos to you, Ms. Berry! —Staff writer Kevin Ferguson can be reached at kfergus@fas.harvard.edu...
...percent” of the market value for their services is patently absurd. Even with today’s enormous salaries for investment management, very, very few investors manage to earn more than $18 million per year. The idea that an in-house manager of a $2 billion bond fund would be paid at least $180 million annually for even exceptional returns is totally out of proportion to the reality of Wall Street compensation. Even $18 million would be an exceptionally high rate of compensation for that work...