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Meanwhile, the brass at AMR quietly landed pension guarantees worth $41 million--benefits that, unlike those of the workers, will be protected even if AMR goes bankrupt. Succumbing to public pressure, AMR backed off on another issue: its proposed "retention" bonuses for top executives. A flap over that cost CEO Donald Carty his job. But the executive pensions remain in place. Investing legend Warren Buffett, who has been campaigning against executive compensation that is out of line with returns to workers and shareholders, said in a recent speech that "what really gets to the public is when CEOs get rich...
...report to Congress expected May 20 and now being circulated to top Defense Department brass for comment, the Total Information Awareness program headed by controversial ex-Navy Admiral John Poindexter is slated to be re-named with the more narrowly-focused moniker Terrorist Information Awareness, sources in and outside the Pentagon tell TIME. Pentagon spokespeople declined comment on the plan or on what, if any, substantive changes might accompany a possible name-change...
...that victory has been declared in Gulf War II, consumers are racing to snap up their personal souvenir of the conflict: the Iraqi most-wanted playing cards used by U.S. soldiers to help identify Saddam's top brass. At $5.95 each, more than a million decks have already sold worldwide. Even the French are buying. The surprising popularity has prompted the cards' distributor, GreatUSAflags.com to reissue other decks created for the military in earlier wars. On sale this week: World War II "spotter decks," which enabled troops to distinguish between Allied and enemy aircraft. Coming soon: the ace-of-spades...
...senior generals helped author a bill now before Parliament that, if passed, would permit them to act without presidential approval. Trials for the killing and pillaging in East Timor in 1999 and the 2002 murder of Papuan independence movement leader Theys Eluay failed to hold any top military brass accountable. (Army chief Ryamizard Ryacudu said the soldiers convicted of killing Theys deserved medals instead of the light prison sentences they received.) And with a presidential election next year, leading politicians are loath to defy the generals. In this environment, says Sidney Jones, who heads the International Crisis Group's Jakarta...
...June 10, 2002, Nowinski made his professional debut on “Monday Night Raw,” leaping out of the stands to toss sermonizing Briton William Regal a set of brass knuckles to aid him in his victory...