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...newsroom in a mail cart to be deposited in front of Lopez with a note that would do Paddington Bear justice, bequeathing it to Ayers. Downey's eyebrows arch in pleased surprise. He's earned his paycheck and a psychic reward. There are very few other professions that can claim to give you that...
...experts claim to know why people buy branded products, but there are probably as many reasons as there are people. All Apple cares about is that their customers have enough money to buy an iPhone, iPod, or Mac. Suckers have money...
...biggest problem with letting banks go over their grades is that, if they can argue with the government in private, they can take those arguments public. Banks told that they must raise capital can debate the judgment and claim that the entire program is flawed. That may cause shareholders and Wall St. analysts to question the value of the entire process and whether it creates an accurate gauge of bank balance sheets and future prospects...
...Such support seems consistent with Harris’ resume, which includes a bachelor’s and Ph.D. degree from Columbia—one of the few remaining universities that can lay claim to a required great books curriculum. In the late 1980s, Harris even taught in the university’s Core program, which emphasizes a grounding in canonical texts. Damrosch and Armitage—also Columbia expatriates—once taught in the same curriculum...
...also no surprise, then, that CIA brass weren't exactly excited about this new directive. (Of course, it's also no surprise they would claim that now either.) One former CIA officer who was part of the discussions that led to the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah in 2002 told me that much of CIA management was dead set against the agency taking on the task. Among other objections, they felt that the military was better equipped to deal with interrogating prisoners of war; the military, after all, had its own interrogation school. But, as the message came down, then Secretary...