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...Michael Duffy, ably assisted by Washington bureau chief Jay Carney. We also covered the election superbly in real time on TIME.com--spearheaded by TIME.com politics editor Daniel Eisenberg. The indefatigable Mark Halperin drove the daily conversation on The Page, and our political blog, Swampland, was a round-the-clock buffet of ideas, observations and anecdotes. Our national political correspondent Karen Tumulty was everywhere. Michael Scherer covered John McCain; Jay Newton-Small was on Obama, and Nathan Thornburgh excelled on Sarah Palin. And of course, the remarkable Joe Klein may have had his greatest election cycle since he first began covering...
...describes as a “change in and loss of personnel” that led to a recent merger with Boston-based Whats Up magazine–which became a supplement in Spare Change– Eck said that the paper has alienated a member of the Buffet family who previously donated $40,000 a year to the publication...
...investors watch stocks bound up and down, pounded by the day's news, and often, it seems, for no discernable reason at all. In the first few minutes of trading on Friday, stock indexes dropped 5% as the double whammy of deleveraging and a worldwide economic slowdown continued to buffet company shares...
...Administration is now doing this, but three questions are raised: Was it a fair deal to the taxpayer? The answer to that seems fairly clear: taxpayers got a raw deal, evident by comparing the terms of Warren Buffet's injection of $5 billion into Goldman Sachs, and the terms extracted by the Administration. Second, is there enough oversight and restrictions to make sure that the bad practices of the past do not recur and that new lending does occur? Again, comparing the terms demanded by the U.K. and by the U.S. Treasury, we got the short end of the stick...
...value of Iceland's krona has melted a bit. But if you have any cash left, there's a special being offered by IcelandAir. A round-trip ticket from Boston or New York to Reykjavik (a four-hour flight), plus three nights at the Hilton Reykjavik Nordica, Scandinanivan breakfast buffet included, costs $549. Book by Oct. 21 for travel through November...