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...center banks. Their CEOs are talking about profits and paying back TARP money the same way that they were calling an end to banking write-offs a year ago. Former Lehman CEO Fuld said last April that the worst of the writedowns was probably over and Morgan Stanley (MS) chief John Mack said that the financial crisis was in the "eighth inning or top of the ninth." (See pictures of baseball...
...library employed a single bookbinder. Though the Weissman Preservation Center has considerably expanded conservation efforts, it continues to operate on goals set by Charles William Eliot, Harvard’s 24th president.“The care of libraries belonging to the University is one of the chief responsibilities of the Corporation,” Eliot said in 1873. “A great collection of books, like a museum of natural history or archaeology, is not only to be made useful to present generations, it is also to be transmitted safely to future generations.”Today, hunched...
Guantanamo • Colin Powell's former chief of staff says vast majority of prisoners at are innocent...
...loving military's monikker for "Mine Resistant Ambush Protection All Terrain Vehicles"). The vehicles "will have a smaller turn radius and be capable of keeping up with some of the pickup trucks [run by insurgents] they may be chasing," says Gen. Robert Lennox, the U.S. Army's assistant deputy chief of staff for operations. The specifics required by the Army and the Marines are spelled out in the request for bids: blas-resistant, off-road vehicles that drive 65 mph, have 16 inches of ground clearance, accelerate from zero to 30 mph in 12 seconds and weigh no more than...
...Army Capabilities Integration Center, because "the Taliban have evolved and the more robust they get, the more counterinsurgency and elements of national power are needed to kick into the effort." The urgency felt by the Pentagon is reflected by Gen. Richard Cody, formerly the Army's vice chief of staff, as he talked about fielding ODIN throughout Afghanistan: "We are building as many as we can as fast...