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...investigations into the Haditha incident - where an IED killed one Marine and his unit then killed 24 Iraqi civilians in the hours afterwards - are essentially complete. One, written by Army Maj. Gen. Eldon Bargewell, deals with the reporting up the Marine chain of command after the incident, and will reportedly inflame already touchy relations between the Marines and the Army by seriously criticizing the Marine officers for not initially looking into the incident; many Marines feel the Army is judging them by a higher standard than it judges itself. The other deals with whether criminal charges could be brought...
...updated, renamed version of the leveraged buyout, or LBO, private-equity firms acquire undervalued companies, load them with debt, overhaul operations and then return them to the stock exchanges whence they came in ballyhooed IPOs--collecting fees at every turn. Fever pitch officially took hold last week when hospital chain HCA was taken private by its management, founder and three buyout firms in a record deal worth more than $30 billion...
...cancer experiment that relies on a $200,000 piece of equipment. They can use either an approved cell line that will yield a less reliable result or a freshly created line that would require the purchase of another machine with private funds. "It's a ball and chain," Goldstein says. "It's goofy. Imagine if your kitchen was a mixture like that, where you can't use those pots with that soup...
...health care to all its employees, “works well in Cambridge.” Jinny Nathans, president of the Harvard Square Defense Fund, said that American Apparel had contacted the Fund to discuss the store’s appearance. “They’re a chain, which is not great for the Square, but their signage appears to not be too obtrusive,” Nathans said. The Fund has encouraged American Apparel to paint a mural on the blank side of the building facing Church Street, she said. —Staff writer Brittney...
...YORK—The basketball court of Kips Bay Towers is an asphalt oasis in Murray Hill, a chain-linked refuge where a scuffed backboard, once pristine white, hangs as a canvas of missed lay-ups and passed time...