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...Hampton home with her children in June. In July the couple signed a postnuptial agreement that left Pelosi $2 million and their Center Moriches, N.Y., home. At the same time, Ammon apparently had her lawyer draft a will to replace one she had written a year earlier awarding the bulk of her $34 million fortune to Pelosi "absolutely and forever." According to her attorney, the new, 37-page document was in effect when Ammon, 47, died on Aug. 22. It leaves nearly her entire estate to her children, now 13. Their nanny, Kathryn Ann Mayne, is given guardianship, $1 million...
...bulk of Grasso's payout--$91.6 million--comes from deferred retirement benefits and savings, and he enjoyed an 8% guaranteed return on one-tenth of his total compensation. "That's a little unusual," Jensen says, because most executive retirement plans peg their returns to vary with interest rates. Fink says the board will be reviewing all aspects of senior executive benefits in October...
Zewinski and other officials met with residents of the Agassiz neighborhood—the area just north of Harvard Yard where the bulk of FAS science resides—on Saturday morning over coffee and bagels to answer questions about the construction and impact of the project...
...military has concluded that hundreds of thousands of Koreans on both sides of the border and thousands of Americans might die in a direct military confrontation, and the only effective non-military forms of pressure - such as economic strangulation - require China's active cooperation, as the supplier of the bulk of North Korea's energy and much of its food. But as much as China fears that a nuclear-armed North Korea might prompt Beijing's key regional competitor, Japan, to go nuclear, it may currently fear the chaos brought on by the collapse of Kim Jong Il's regime...
...three-day bash was a Friday afternoon parade. But the closest thing to Rio's sumptuous Samba schools was a float from a local Brazilian restaurant, with two dusky dancers and a band. The rest of the dozen or so floats looked hastily cobbled together from tinfoil, and the bulk of the parade comprised local schoolchildren...